Orna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orna has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 1965, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Orna, 1973
1 in 503,000
Orna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Orna?
Orna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1973
- 1 in 503,000
- 6 of 3,016,706 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 243,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1973
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 348,505 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1973 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 348,505 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ornas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orna was born before 1965 — so the typical Orna is around 60 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 37
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (21).
Is Orna 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 1965 (10)
- Years since peak
- 60
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 100.0% average annual change
Spellings of Orna
Orna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 17.2% against Orna's <0.01%.
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 Orna is used
Across 1910–2025, Orna was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Orna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Orna around the world
Where Orna 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 & Wales2000–2025#5,927in 2025
- Northern Ireland2003–2016#440in 2016
- Ireland1964–2022#747in 2022
- France1995–2025#5,441in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Orna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Orna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.