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

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Peak · girls
1892 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,199
since 1892

Orla over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201899peak #1,278, 1892peak #629, 1890girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,51470—
2024#2,50871—
2023#2,58868—
2022#2,82160—
2021#2,95856—
2020#4,26332—
2019#3,92337—
2018#4,66229—
2017#6,28719—
2016#4,53131—
2015#4,58430—
2014#4,76829—
2013#4,75529—
2012#6,57619—
2011#4,91528—
2010#5,97722—
2009#4,67731—
2008#7,40817—
2007#6,32321—
2006#8,23714—
2005#7,50015—
2004#7,82814—
2003#7,58014—
2002#6,39217—
2001#6,32217—
2000#5,70519—
1999#8,22311—
1998#11,1387—
1997#9,0179—
1996#10,5677—
1995——
1994#11,7786—
1993——
1992#11,7386—
1991#7,98710—
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1967#6,8045—
1966#5,8096—
1965—#3,5376
1964#6,7675—
1963——
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1959#6,2455—
1958——
1957#6,0865—
1956#5,9525—
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1951#5,4145—
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1949#5,2445—
1948——
1947#4,0078#3,7335
1946——
1945—#2,9966
1944#4,0546#3,4305
1943——
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1941—#3,1336
1940#3,5037—
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1938#3,8476—
1937#2,57011—
1936#3,7016—
1935——
1934#2,74110#2,9737
1933#2,68810—
1932#3,2748—
1931—#3,3906
1930#3,3458#2,60910
1929#3,1379#2,9808
1928#2,76811#2,8439
1927#2,25616#2,70310
1926#2,47414#3,7086
1925#3,6648#3,7416
1924#3,3939#2,82210
1923#3,12510#2,61411
1922#2,38715#2,48612
1921#2,94111#2,37613
1920#2,17217#2,76510
1919#2,51513#2,8779
1918#3,2449#3,3687
1917#2,69311#2,42311
1916#1,94917#2,7309
1915#3,7956#3,0827
1914#2,26510#2,9156
1913—#2,4966
1912—#2,0457
1911——
1910#2,3985—
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1904#1,8775—
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1900—#1,1626
1899#1,3946#9286
1898#1,7005#1,1215
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1894—#7878
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1892#1,2786—
1891—#9635
1890—#62910
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1887—#6798
1886——
1885—#8366
1884—#7647
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1882—#8376
1881—#7816
1880—#9095
First appearance
1892

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
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1892
  • Peaked 1892 at #1,278 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1893, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,820
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 29.8% of all girls named Orla (357) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1966
  • Mostly boys until 1965, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s17#1,278 (1892)#1,457
1900s5#1,877 (1904)#1,877
1910s71#1,949 (1916)#2,694
1920s120#2,172 (1920)#2,832
1930s59#2,570 (1937)#3,167
1940s26#3,503 (1940)#4,202
1950s20#5,414 (1951)#5,924
1960s16#5,809 (1966)#6,460
1970s0——
1980s0——
1990s56#7,987 (1991)#10,064
2000s179#4,677 (2009)#6,797
2010s273#3,923 (2019)#5,098
2020s357#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

girls
#1,394
6 births · 1 in 38,837 girls
boys
#928
6 births · 1 in 17,702 boys

Top girls' names in 1899

  1. #1Mary13,172
  2. #2Anna5,115
  3. #3Helen5,048
  4. #4Margaret4,249
  5. #5Ruth3,912
  6. #6Florence3,314
  7. #7Elizabeth3,287
  8. #8Marie3,156
  9. #9Ethel2,999
  10. #10Lillian2,703
  11. #1,394Orla6

Top boys' names in 1899

  1. #1John6,990
  2. #2William6,086
  3. #3James4,597
  4. #4George4,018
  5. #5Charles3,147
  6. #6Joseph2,679
  7. #7Robert2,609
  8. #8Frank2,550
  9. #9Edward1,901
  10. #10Henry1,831
  11. #928Orla6
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).

Ranked beside Orla
  1. #1,278Willard7
  2. #1,278Willia7
  3. #1,278Willis7
  4. #1,394Orla6
  5. #1,394Albirda6
  6. #1,394Albirta6
  7. #1,394Aleda6
  8. #1,596Adelyn5
  9. #1,596Adra5
  10. #1,596Agness5

Tied with 201 names at #1,394; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1898
Risers
  1. ↑ 972Tula#1,700 → #728
  2. ↑ 865Josefina#1,700 → #835
  3. ↑ 822Lempi#1,700 → #878
  4. ↑ 822Villa#1,700 → #878
  5. ↑ 774Fae#1,502 → #728
Fallers
  1. ↓ 946Rosia#650 → #1,596
  2. ↓ 710Lelar#886 → #1,596
  3. ↓ 676Tinnie#920 → #1,596
  4. ↓ 676Tracy#920 → #1,596
  5. ↓ 633Alena#963 → #1,596

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).

Ranked beside Orla
  1. #857Vaughn7
  2. #857Vic7
  3. #857Viola7
  4. #928Orla6
  5. #928Alberto6
  6. #928Alcide6
  7. #928Alferd6
  8. #1,051Ace5
  9. #1,051Acy5
  10. #1,051Adelard5

Tied with 122 names at #928; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1898
Risers
  1. ↑ 640Rogers#1,121 → #481
  2. ↑ 600Edna#1,121 → #521
  3. ↑ 545Giles#1,002 → #457
  4. ↑ 508Sarah#1,121 → #613
  5. ↑ 461Thaddeus#885 → #424
Fallers
  1. ↓ 566Jason#485 → #1,051
  2. ↓ 564Fitzhugh#364 → #928
  3. ↓ 508Oran#543 → #1,051
  4. ↓ 493Wilber#435 → #928
  5. ↓ 443Hosea#485 → #928

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

See the top 100 for 1899 →