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Orrin

#2,278 in 2025Boys' name

Pine tree, through Oren

Orrin has been given to 5,985 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,278 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Orrin, 2025

1 in 53,500

Orrin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orrin: meaning, origin, and history

Pine tree, through Oren

Irish

What Orrin means

Orrin belongs to the name family reached through Orrin → Oren. Its meaning is “pine tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Orrin is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oren.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,985 boys were recorded with the name Orrin between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1915; its best national rank was #383 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,282 in 2020 to #2,278 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,813 in 2015 to #2,278 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Orrin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 27,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,278
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orrin 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orrin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orrins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orrin was born before 1957 — so the typical Orrin is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
11.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 11.8% of all recorded uses (709).

Is Orrin 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
+379
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−465
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.3%
Peak was 1915 (98)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#383
1881

Spellings of Orrin

Orrin is not the most common spelling — Morris is, with 14.5% against Orrin's 1.2%.

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 Orrin is used

Across 2016–2025, Orrin was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 86,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 20,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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.

Orrin around the world

Where Orrin 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–2002
    #281
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    2004–2015
    #699
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1987–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Orrin

People whose public names include Orrin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Orrin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,278
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4
Best rank ever
#383
1881
Peak year
1915
98 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,985
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Orrin

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

TorinOrrenOrinKyrinTyrinErinLorinDarinThorinArinJarinMarinCorinOrrisAarinDerinPerrinOrrieOrryKamrinDarrinKirinSorinTorrin

Names with a curve like Orrin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Orrin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EvansMahlonEnosJulesLeanderCrawfordMerrittPriceRaleighHamiltonHoseaWilliams

Sibling names for Orrin

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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