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Orenthal

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Orenthal has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1977, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Orenthal, 2005

1 in 769,000

Orenthal over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orenthal: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orenthal means

Orenthal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Orenthal is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 277 boys were recorded with the name Orenthal between 1968 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,757 in 1969.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Orenthal?

Orenthal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among boys only
1 in 399,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orenthal 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orenthal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orenthals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orenthal was born before 1976 — so the typical Orenthal is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
61.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
277
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 61.7% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Orenthal 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (28)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,757
1969

Where Orenthal is used

Across 1910–2025, Orenthal was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 837,439 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3South Carolina1 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. Orenthal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orenthal 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
#1,757
1969
Peak year
1977
28 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
277
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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

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