Orange

Where Orange comes from

Orange hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1827
    Orange Jacobs born
    American politician
  2. 1881
    First appearance
    #595 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #520
    13 babies named Orange — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1985
    Orange Cassidy born
    American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Orange Cassidy · American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling, born 1985
  • Orange Jacobs · American politician, 1827–1914
  • Orange Ferriss · American politician, 1814–1894
  • Orange Judd · American biochemist, editor, and publisher, 1822–1892

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.