Recorded 1908–2025 · United States
Orlin was most popular in 1932, when 48 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,867 that year. In 2025 it ranked #9,648, with 22 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,683 people named Orlin.
Orlin first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1908, which makes it about 117 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 96 of the 118 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,683 American births named Orlin between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 697 are estimated to be alive today.
22 American babies were named Orlin in 2025, ranking #9,648 that year.
Orlin is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 19 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Orlin is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,683 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 697 Americans named Orlin are alive today — 41% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 24 years old, and half are between 10 and 71. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org