Orah

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births

Peak · girls
1882 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
291
since 1882

Orah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Orah has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #740, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#10,2719
2023#13,4626
2022
2021#8,97811
2020#12,1427
2019
2018
2017#10,6899
2016#16,2155
2015
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2012
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2009#13,7047
2008#15,4056
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1991#13,1475
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1941#4,4205
1940#4,3495
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1931
1930#4,5505
1929
1928
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1926
1925
1924#3,6658
1923#3,12510
1922#2,95811
1921
1920#3,09710
1919
1918#3,5128
1917#3,7137
1916
1915
1914#3,6185
1913#3,1875
1912
1911
1910
1909
1908
1907
1906
1905
1904#1,8775
1903#1,5926
1902
1901
1900#1,5617
1899
1898#1,5026
1897#1,2637
1896#1,4166
1895#1,2028
1894#1,3536
1893#1,4375
1892#86112
1891#1,2136
1890#9409
1889#1,0257
1888#1,0367
1887#1,0366
1886#8977
1885#9216
1884#8517
1883#7547
1882#7407
1881
1880
First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Orah! It came in at #740, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1899, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Orah
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 814 spots since 2024 (#10,271#9,457)
  • 2,685 spots since 2020 (#12,142#9,457)
  • Biggest jump: 352 spots in 1892 (#1,213#861)
  • Biggest drop: 576 spots in 1893 (#861#1,437)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #740 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1882–1886
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,407
  • Highest: 1 in 15,407 girls born in 1882 were named Orah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 22.3% of all girls named Orah (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s54#740 (1882)#908
1890s65#861 (1892)#1,243
1900s18#1,561 (1900)#1,677
1910s25#3,187 (1913)#3,508
1920s39#2,958 (1922)#3,211
1930s5#4,550 (1930)#4,550
1940s10#4,349 (1940)#4,385
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s5#13,147 (1991)#13,147
2000s13#13,704 (2009)#14,555
2010s14#10,689 (2017)#13,452
2020s43#8,978 (2021)#10,862

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Orah in 1890

girls
#940
9 births · 1 in 21,153 girls

Top girls' names in 1890

  1. #1Mary12,078
  2. #2Anna5,233
  3. #3Elizabeth3,112
  4. #4Margaret3,100
  5. #5Emma2,980
  6. #6Florence2,744
  7. #7Ethel2,718
  8. #8Minnie2,650
  9. #9Clara2,496
  10. #10Bertha2,388
  11. #940Orah9
More about 1890

girls

190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 21,153 of them was named Orah, which outranked 38.7% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Orah
  1. #872Vassie10
  2. #872Vonnie10
  3. #872Wilhelmine10
  4. #940Orah9
  5. #940Abigail9
  6. #940Aida9
  7. #940Albertha9
  8. #1,006Altie8
  9. #1,006Annis8
  10. #1,006Arbie8

Tied with 65 names at #940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. 612Electa#1,279#667
  2. 586Lular#1,279#693
  3. 548Alvena#1,147#599
  4. 521Prudie#1,279#758
  5. 505Tempie#1,147#642
Fallers
  1. 581Lella#757#1,338
  2. 581Vira#757#1,338
  3. 553Buena#657#1,210
  4. 536Roxana#802#1,338
  5. 499Fleda#839#1,338

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890