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Orly

#4,722 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Orli

Orly has been given to 824 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #4,722 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Orly, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orly: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Orli

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orly means

Orly is a alternate transcription of Orli.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Orly → Orli. The family’s meaning is “light for me”, recorded in the naming reference for Orli.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Orli.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 824 girls were recorded with the name Orly between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2013; its best national rank was #4,401 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,727 in 2020 to #4,722 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,620 in 2015 to #4,722 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 Orly?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,722
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orly 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orlys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orly was born before 2010 — so the typical Orly is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
824
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (259).

Is Orly 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
+1,195
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+898
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.9%
Peak was 2013 (33)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,401
2013

Spellings of Orly

Orly is not the most common spelling — Holly is, with 23.4% against Orly'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 Orly is used

Across 1910–2025, Orly was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 120,721 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 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. Orly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orly around the world

Where Orly 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
    2003–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2023
    #6,637
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2002–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Orly by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,722
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5
Best rank ever
#4,401
2013
Peak year
2013
33 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
824
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Orly

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

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Sibling names for Orly

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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