Orbin

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Orbin has been given to 456 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1916, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Orbin, 2024

1 in 669,000

Orbin over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orbin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orbin means

Orbin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Orbin is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 456 boys were recorded with the name Orbin between 1904 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,348 in 1904.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Orbin?

Orbin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Orbin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orbin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orbins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orbin was born before 1930 — so the typical Orbin is around 95 today.

Median birth year: 1930; About 95 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.6%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 58; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Orbin 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (22)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,348; 1904

Spellings of Orbin

Orbin is not the most common spelling — Robin is, with 11.6% against Orbin's 0.11%.

Robin11.6%46,952
Corbin10.2%41,112
Irvin9.9%39,922
Ervin9.7%38,991
Orion5.7%23,120
Erwin5.3%21,213
Irwin3.9%15,946
Odin3.3%13,282

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Orbin is used

Across 1910–2025, Orbin was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 119,153 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Kentucky1 in 50,000
2Tennessee1 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. Orbin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orbin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,348; 1904
Peak year: 1916; 22 that year
First recorded: 1904
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 456
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Orbin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Orbie Jabin Zubin Sabin Orby Cobin Albin Ebin Reubin Orban Orbra Tobin Orben Irbin Rubin Jobin Kebin Orba Marbin Kobin Elbin Aubin Robbin Colbin

Sibling names for Orbin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Albina

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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