Oran
Oran is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 486th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922104 births
- Best rank
- #486in 1901
- Since 1880
- 4,428people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,428 boys have been named Oran in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 104 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Oran | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 76 | |
| 1890s | 95 | |
| 1900s | 141 | |
| 1910s | 600 | |
| 1920s | 839 | |
| 1930s | 520 | |
| 1940s | 471 | |
| 1950s | 374 | |
| 1960s | 248 | |
| 1970s | 230 | |
| 1980s | 165 | |
| 1990s | 169 | |
| 2000s | 201 | |
| 2010s | 203 | |
| 2020s | 96 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Oran was the 636th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Oran
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clementpeak 1918
- Otispeak 1920
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Furmanpeak 1918
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
- Roscopeak 1922
- Ennispeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.