Orley
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orley has been given to 459 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1918, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Orley, 1963
1 in 792,000
Orley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Orley?
Orley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1963
- 1 in 792,000
- 5 of 3,958,455 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 406,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1963
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,760 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Orleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orley was born before 1923 — so the typical Orley is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 30.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (142).
Is Orley 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (25)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.9% average annual change
Spellings of Orley
Orley is not the most common spelling — Corey is, with 35.8% against Orley's 0.09%.
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 Orley is used
Across 1910–2025, Orley was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 423,596 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
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. Orley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Orley around the world
Where Orley 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 & Wales2016–2018#4,749in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Orley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Orley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.