Orla
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · Last seen for boys in 1965 at #3,537
Given to girls 80.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1892 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,199since 1892
Orla over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,514 | 70 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,508 | 71 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,588 | 68 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,821 | 60 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
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| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,570 | 11 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #2,688 | 10 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | #2,609 | 10 |
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #2,256 | 16 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #2,474 | 14 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | #2,822 | 10 |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 | #2,614 | 11 |
| 1922 | #2,387 | 15 | #2,486 | 12 |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 | #2,376 | 13 |
| 1920 | #2,172 | 17 | #2,765 | 10 |
| 1919 | #2,515 | 13 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #1,949 | 17 | #2,730 | 9 |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 | #2,915 | 6 |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | #1,162 | 6 | |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 | #928 | 6 |
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 | #1,121 | 5 |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #787 | 8 | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | #1,278 | 6 | — | |
| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
| 1890 | — | #629 | 10 | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #679 | 8 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | #836 | 6 | |
| 1884 | — | #764 | 7 | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #837 | 6 | |
| 1881 | — | #781 | 6 | |
| 1880 | — | #909 | 5 | |
The first year at least five girls were named Orla! It came in at #1,278, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1893–1898, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Orla is popular in 1899
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Orla
- 6 spots since 2024 (#2,508 → #2,514)
- 1,749 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #2,514)
- 2,070 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #2,514)
- Debuted 1892
- Peaked 1892 at #1,278 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1893, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,820 girls born in 2024 were named Orla (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,278 in 1892, was only 1 in 35,390 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.8% of all girls named Orla (357) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1965, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 17 | #1,278 (1892) | #1,457 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,877 (1904) | #1,877 |
| 1910s | 71 | #1,949 (1916) | #2,694 |
| 1920s | 120 | #2,172 (1920) | #2,832 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,570 (1937) | #3,167 |
| 1940s | 26 | #3,503 (1940) | #4,202 |
| 1950s | 20 | #5,414 (1951) | #5,924 |
| 1960s | 16 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,460 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 56 | #7,987 (1991) | #10,064 |
| 2000s | 179 | #4,677 (2009) | #6,797 |
| 2010s | 273 | #3,923 (2019) | #5,098 |
| 2020s | 357 | #2,508 (2024) | #2,942 |
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.
Orla in 1899
Top girls' names in 1899
Top boys' names in 1899
More about 1899
girls
233,022 girls got a published name in 1899; 1 in 38,837 of them was named Orla, which outranked 24.3% of the 1,842 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,278Willard7
- #1,278Willia7
- #1,278Willis7
- #1,394Orla6
- #1,394Albirda6
- #1,394Albirta6
- #1,394Aleda6
- #1,596Adelyn5
- #1,596Adra5
- #1,596Agness5
Tied with 201 names at #1,394; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
106,211 boys got a published name in 1899; 1 in 17,702 of them was named Orla, which outranked 22.7% of the 1,200 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).