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Orestes

Boys' name

Of the mountains

Orestes has been given to 343 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1986, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Orestes, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orestes: meaning, origin, and history

Of the mountains

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orestes means

Orestes means “of the mountains”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Orestes is used in Greek Mythology.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.res.tɛːs/ and /ɔ.ˈɹɛs.tiːz/ for Orestes.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 343 boys were recorded with the name Orestes between 1918 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1986; its best national rank was #3,187 in 1975.

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 Orestes?

Orestes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orestes 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orestes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orestess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orestes was born before 1983 — so the typical Orestes is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
330
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Orestes 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 1986 (14)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,187
1975

Spellings of Orestes

Orestes is not the most common spelling — Presten is, with 40.3% against Orestes's 23.1%.

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 Orestes is used

Across 1910–2025, Orestes was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 553,733 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Orestes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orestes around the world

Where Orestes 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
    2017–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Orestes 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
#3,187
1975
Peak year
1986
14 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
343
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Orestes

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

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Sibling names for Orestes

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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