Orey
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orey has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1987, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Orey, 1996
1 in 729,000
Orey over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Orey?
Orey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oreys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orey was born before 1988 — so the typical Orey is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 67.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Orey 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 1987 (17)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Orey
Orey is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 16.7% against Orey's <0.01%.
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.
Orey around the world
Where Orey 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.
- South Australia1988–1988#476in 1988
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Orey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Orey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.