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Orris

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Horace

Orris has been given to 988 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1918, with 45 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Orris, 2022

1 in 677,000

Orris over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2022, Orris went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18942022

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.

Orris: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Horace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orris means

Orris is a form of Horace.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

English surname from a vernacular form of the personal name Horace.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Orris (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Orris is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Horace.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 939 boys were recorded with the name Orris between 1894 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1918; its best national rank was #836 in 1901.

In the United States, 49 girls were recorded with the name Orris between 1915 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,830 in 1917.

How common is Orris?

Orris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orris 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orris was born before 1924 — so the typical Orris is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.53%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
71
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1920s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (303).

Is Orris 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 1918 (45)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#836
1901

Spellings of Orris

Orris is not the most common spelling — Chris is, with 34.1% against Orris's 0.22%.

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 Orris is used

Across 1910–2025, Orris was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 252,980 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 25,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —

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. Orris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orris 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
#836
1901
Peak year
1918
45 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
939
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,830
1917
Peak year
1917
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1926
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Orris

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

OrrenDarisOrrieTyrisOrryOrrinHarisEdrisSyrisIrisCyrisAmarisKhrisJarisWarisFarisErisParrisDarrisBorisArrisIdrisLorisAris

Sibling names for Orris

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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