Orange
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orange has been given to 616 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Orange, 1971
1 in 686,000
Orange over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Orange?
Orange had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 686,000
- 5 of 3,432,187 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 475,803 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orange sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orange. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oranges were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orange was born before 1921 — so the typical Orange is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 33
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (133).
Is Orange rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (20)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Orange
Orange is not the most common spelling — Oran is, with 38.0% against Orange's 5.1%.
Where Orange is used
Across 1910–2025, Orange was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,404,169 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
- 2Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Orange has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Orange by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Orange
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orange
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.