Orinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Orinda has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1949, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Orinda, 1950

1 in 584,000

Orinda over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orinda means

Orinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Orinda is used in French.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Orinda between 1921 and 1950. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1949; its best national rank was #5,100 in 1949.

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 Orinda?

Orinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1950, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1950: 1 in 584,000; 6 of 3,502,380 births
Among girls only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1950: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 404,612 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Orinda 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 1950 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 404,612 children born in 1950 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orinda was born before 1949 — so the typical Orinda is around 76 today.

Median birth year: 1949; About 76 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 70.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Orinda 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1949 (6)
Years since peak: 76; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,100; 1949

Spellings of Orinda

Orinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 64.2% against Orinda's <0.01%.

Linda64.2%1,455,143
Brenda26.9%608,478
Ronda1.5%34,315
Trina1.4%32,568
Frieda1.1%25,506
Corina0.70%15,925
Frida0.37%8,491
Corinna0.31%7,110

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.

Orinda around the world

Where Orinda 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
2017–2017
#5,550
in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Orinda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,100; 1949
Peak year: 1949; 6 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 1950
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Orinda

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

Oriane Orisha Orielle Oriella Oriona Orita Orionna Orian Oriole Keanda Orissa Oriyah Ylanda Seanda Tianda Vhonda Chenda Orin Oriya Luanda Thonda Eronda Ayanda Evelinda

Sibling names for Orinda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Roseanna Karon Carlotta Mickey Roseanne Peggie Delois Janey

For a brother

Donn Lanny Williams Felton Rogers Ivory Artis Galen

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