Orry
#11,640 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Orry has been given to 383 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #11,640 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1986, with 80 recorded.
Babies named Orry, 2025
1 in 553,000
Orry 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Orry?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,640
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Orry sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Orrys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Orry was born before 1990 — so the typical Orry is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 47.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 383
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (181).
Is Orry 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
- −1,332
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +77
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.5%
- Peak was 1986 (80)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Orry
Orry is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 18.2% against Orry'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 Orry is used
Across 1910–2025, Orry was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,153,686 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Orry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Orry around the world
Where Orry 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 & Wales2006–2024#4,271in 2024
- Scotland1990–1990#351in 1990
- Ireland1987–1987#303in 1987
- France1999–1999#4,052in 1999
- South Australia1988–2001#581in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Orry by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Orry
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Orry
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.