Orris
Recorded 1894–2022 · United States
Orris was most popular in 1918, when 51 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,882 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 988 people named Orris.
Orris over time
How old is the name Orris?
Orris first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1894, which makes it about 131 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 57 of the 132 years since.
How many people are named Orris?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 988 American births named Orris 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 124 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Orris in 2025?
Orris was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Orris getting more or less popular?
Orris is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025.
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.
Is Orris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Orris is a boy’s name — 5.0% of the 988 Americans given it were girls and 95.0% 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.
How old is someone named Orris?
Roughly 124 Americans named Orris are alive today — 13% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 79 years old, and half are between 69 and 85.
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.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org