Orit

Girls' name

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Orit has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1975, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Orit, 2005

1 in 769,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orit: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orit means

Orit means “light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Orit is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.ˈʁit/ for Orit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 girls were recorded with the name Orit between 1970 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,845 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Orit?

Orit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005: 1 in 769,000; 5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only: 1 in 369,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 532,928 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Orit 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orits were born

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

Median birth year: 1983; About 42 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 56.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 124; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Orit 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 1975 (10)
Years since peak: 50; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,845; 1975

Spellings of Orit

Orit is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 24.8% against Orit's <0.01%.

Doris24.8%462,548
Lori18.3%341,911
Erin16.9%316,575
Rita15.2%284,452
Iris5.4%101,550
Aria5.1%95,674
Ora2.1%39,278
Tori2.0%37,134

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 Orit is used

Across 1910–2025, Orit was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Orit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orit 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: #5,845; 1975
Peak year: 1975; 10 that year
First recorded: 1970
Last recorded: 2005
All-time count: 124
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Orit

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

Oria Oriya Orian Ori Oris Oriah Oriel Oriyah Orine Oriane Orion Sarit Orie Brit Nimrit Merrit Merit Orielle Orin Orilla Orissa Berit Marit Orita

Sibling names for Orit

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

Cary Karie Brandee Sunshine Kisha Ami Susannah Misti

For a brother

Giuseppe Abdul Demond Andrea Jamey Chadwick Torrey Federico

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