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Ormond

Boys' name

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Ormond has been given to 513 babies in the U.S. since 1903. 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 1917, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Ormond, 2000

1 in 630,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ormond: meaning, origin, and history

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Irish surname transfer

What Ormond means

Ormond is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ormond is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɔɹ.mənd/ and /ˈɔː.mənd/ for Ormond.

The naming story behind Ormond

Ormond is a given name adopted from Irish surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 513 boys were recorded with the name Ormond between 1903 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,259 in 1903.

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 Ormond?

Ormond had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 630,000
6 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only
1 in 327,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
436,510 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ormond 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 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ormond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ormonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ormond was born before 1928 — so the typical Ormond is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
82
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1920s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Ormond 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 1917 (22)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,259
1903

Spellings of Ormond

Ormond is not the most common spelling — Edmond is, with 25.2% against Ormond's 0.52%.

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.

Ormond around the world

Where Ormond 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.

  • South Australia
    1952–1952
    #345
    in 1952

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ormond by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,259
1903
Peak year
1917
22 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
513
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ormond

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

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Sibling names for Ormond

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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