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Orli

#5,664 in 2025Girls' name

Light for me

Orli has been given to 512 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #5,664 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Orli, 2025

1 in 151,000

Orli over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orli: meaning, origin, and history

Light for me

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orli means

Orli means “light for me”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 512 girls were recorded with the name Orli between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,744 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,130 in 2020 to #5,664 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,519 in 2015 to #5,664 in 2025.

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.

How common is Orli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,664
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orli 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orlis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orli was born before 2013 — so the typical Orli is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
512
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Orli 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
−920
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−534
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,855
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.9%
Peak was 2024 (29)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,744
2024

Spellings of Orli

Orli is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 47.5% against Orli's 0.07%.

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 Orli is used

Across 1910–2025, Orli was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 361,002 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Orli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orli around the world

Where Orli 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
    2004–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Orli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,664
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 534
Best rank ever
#4,744
2024
Peak year
2024
29 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
512
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Orli

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

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Sibling names for Orli

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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