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Orin

#1,859 in 2025Boys' name

Pine tree, through Oren

Orin has been given to 6,299 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,859 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Orin, 2025

1 in 39,000

Orin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orin: meaning, origin, and history

Pine tree, through Oren

Irish

What Orin means

Orin belongs to the name family reached through Orin → Oren. Its meaning is “pine tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Orin is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oren.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,283 boys were recorded with the name Orin between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 1920; its best national rank was #391 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,811 in 2020 to #1,859 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,867 in 2015 to #1,859 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Orin between 2012 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2012; its best national rank was #16,360 in 2012.

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 Orin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,859
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orin 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orin was born before 1956 — so the typical Orin is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,407
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.9% of all recorded uses (811).

Is Orin 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
+392
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−48
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.6%
Peak was 1920 (111)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#391
1880

Spellings of Orin

Orin is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 34.0% against Orin's 0.18%.

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 Orin is used

Across 2016–2025, Orin was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 38,256 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2Colorado1 in 14,286
  3. 3Washington1 in 14,286
  4. 4Michigan1 in 20,000
  5. 5Kansas1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Orin around the world

Where Orin 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
    1996–2025
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2019
    #418
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Orin

People whose public names include Orin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Orin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Orin. Linked forms have their own page here.

Oren

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Orin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,859
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 48
Best rank ever
#391
1880
Peak year
1920
111 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,283
Count in 2025
85

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,360
2012
Peak year
2012
6 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Orin

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

OrieErinOrrinOrionOriTorinArinOrisOrianKyrinTyrinOrienLorinDarinOrielThorinJarinMarinCorinAarinDerinPerrinDarrinKamrin

Names with a curve like Orin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Orin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MerrittEvansLeanderCrawfordJulesMahlonEnosPriceLuciusHoseaNobleValentine

Sibling names for Orin

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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