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Oreste

Boys' name

Form of Orestes

Oreste has been given to 357 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1921, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Oreste, 1987

1 in 601,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oreste: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Orestes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oreste means

Oreste is a form of Orestes.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Oreste is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.ˈrɛs.te/ for Oreste.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Oreste comes through Ancient Greek Ὀρέστης.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Orestes.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Oreste is pronounced /oˈrɛs.te/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 357 boys were recorded with the name Oreste between 1912 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,032 in 1921.

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 Oreste?

Oreste had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 601,000
6 of 3,605,072 births
Among boys only
1 in 311,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
416,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oreste 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 1987 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 416,475 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oreste. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orestes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oreste was born before 1928 — so the typical Oreste is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
79
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Choose a decade

1920s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Oreste 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (17)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,032
1921

Spellings of Oreste

Oreste is not the most common spelling — Forest is, with 94.9% against Oreste's 1.9%.

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 Oreste is used

Across 1910–2025, Oreste was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 309,857 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Oreste has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oreste around the world

Where Oreste 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.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #4,097
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1965–2010
    #494
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Oreste 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
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Best rank ever
#2,032
1921
Peak year
1921
17 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
357
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oreste

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

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Sibling names for Oreste

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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