Orr
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orr has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1998, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Orr, 1998
1 in 525,000
Orr 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Orr over time
In 2006, Orr went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Orr?
Orr had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 525,000
- 7 of 3,677,189 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 364,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orr sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 364,120 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Orrs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orr was born before 1945 — so the typical Orr is around 80 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 18
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Orr 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (7)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Orr by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Orr
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orr
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.