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Orest

#5,777 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Orestes

Orest has been given to 310 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #5,777 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Orest, 2025

1 in 207,000

Orest over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orest: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Orestes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orest means

Orest is a form of Orestes.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Orest → Orestes. The family’s meaning is “of the mountains”, recorded in the naming reference for Orestes.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Orestes.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 310 boys were recorded with the name Orest between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1952; its best national rank was #1,790 in 1952.

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.

How common is Orest?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,777
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orest 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orest. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orests were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orest was born before 1958 — so the typical Orest is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
259
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Choose a decade

1950s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Orest 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
+3,851
Places climbed
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
84.2%
Peak was 1952 (19)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,790
1952

Spellings of Orest

Orest is not the most common spelling — Ernest is, with 38.6% against Orest's 0.04%.

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 Orest is used

Across 1910–2025, Orest was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 694,109 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 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. Orest has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orest around the world

Where Orest ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2023–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Orest by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,790
1952
Peak year
1952
19 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
310
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Orest

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

OrelOrellHonestOresteOreeQuestPriestHarvestOreoluwaOrestesOreyOrenthalOrenOreanWestOrestoEverestOresOreaAhnestDeforestMarquestKwestOre

Sibling names for Orest

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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