Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
Orin was used most in 1920, when 111 babies were given the name. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. It reaches the top 1,000 in 68 years of the record.
As of 2025 the name sits at #1,852, with 85 births that year. Year on year the rank improved by 384.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Orin?
About 3,500 people named Orin are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 6,299 births under the name since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Orin?
Half of living Orins are older than 29, half younger. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Orin a early 20th-century name.
Your Orin
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Orin is most common
Orin is 1.8× as common in Minnesota as it is nationally.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Orin is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.