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Oria

#16,650 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Form of Aurea

Oria has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #16,650 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Oria, 2025

1 in 663,000

Oria over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Oria over time

In 2025, Oria went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19062025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Oria: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Aurea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oria means

Oria is a form of Aurea.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Oria is used in Italian (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Oria → Aurea. The family’s meaning is “golden”, recorded in Latin with the source elements aureus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aurea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 264 girls were recorded with the name Oria between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,156 in 1906.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #14,129 in 2015 to #16,650 in 2025.

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Oria between 1915 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,136 in 1917.

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 Oria?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,650
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oria sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oria was born before 1929 — so the typical Oria is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
90
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Choose a decade

1920s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Oria 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
−1,806
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,521
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 1915 (10)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,156
1906

Spellings of Oria

Oria is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 10.3% against Oria'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.

Oria around the world

Where Oria 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
    2019–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1953–2025
    #1,773
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2016
    #2,808
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Oria by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,650
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,156
1906
Peak year
1915
10 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
264
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,136
1917
Peak year
1917
8 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oria

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

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Sibling names for Oria

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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