Orlaith
#14,482 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orlaith has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #14,482 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Orlaith, 2025
1 in 553,000
Orlaith 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Orlaith?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,482
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orlaith sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orlaith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Orlaiths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orlaith was born before 2023 — so the typical Orlaith is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 67.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 49
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 67.3% of all recorded uses (33).
Is Orlaith 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
- −4,410
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,621
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 60.0%
- Peak was 2024 (10)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Orlaith around the world
Where Orlaith 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 & Wales1996–2025#596in 2025
- Scotland1999–2025#172in 2025
- Northern Ireland1997–2025#132in 2025
- Ireland1965–2025#325in 2025
- South Australia1970–1974#683in 1974
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office 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.
Orlaith by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Orlaith
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orlaith
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.