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Orlin

#4,661 in 2025Boys' name

Eagle

Orlin has been given to 1,683 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #4,661 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1932, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Orlin, 2025

1 in 151,000

Orlin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orlin: meaning, origin, and history

Eagle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orlin means

Orlin means “eagle”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,683 boys were recorded with the name Orlin between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1932; its best national rank was #947 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,812 in 2020 to #4,661 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,221 in 2015 to #4,661 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 Orlin?

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 boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,661
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orlin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Orlin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orlins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orlin was born before 1938 — so the typical Orlin is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
617
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (360).

Is Orlin 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
−368
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+151
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+560
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.8%
Peak was 1932 (48)
Years since peak
93
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#947
1932

Spellings of Orlin

Orlin is not the most common spelling — Colin is, with 20.5% against Orlin's 0.26%.

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 Orlin is used

Across 1910–2025, Orlin was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 101,937 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 25,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 33,333
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Orlin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orlin around the world

Where Orlin 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Orlin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,661
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 151
Best rank ever
#947
1932
Peak year
1932
48 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,683
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Orlin

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

OrlanJalinKalinKolinKylinCalinRylinTylinBerlinDaylinHarlinArlinTalinOrlandDylinJaelinKellinCarlinNolinKollinOrleyTaylinKaelinOrlo

Sibling names for Orlin

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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