Orion
Orion is ranked 325th among boys in 2024 (1,061 births). Its best rank was 300th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #325up 48 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0610.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20181,152 births
- Best rank
- #300in 2018
- Since 1880
- 22,710people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,098 boys have been named Orion in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,152 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 612 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Orion | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 34 | |
| 1890s | 49 | |
| 1900s | 37 | |
| 1910s | 192 | |
| 1920s | 281 | |
| 1930s | 154 | |
| 1940s | 121 | |
| 1950s | 84 | |
| 1960s | 82 | |
| 1970s | 500 | |
| 1980s | 733 | |
| 1990s | 1,852 | |
| 2000s | 4,367 | |
| 2010s | 8,595 | |
| 2020s | 5,017 |
In 2018, its biggest year
Orion was the 300th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Orion
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leonardopeak 2019
- Ibrahimpeak 2024
- Nolanpeak 2015
- Anaspeak 2016
- Kanepeak 2018
- Jadpeak 2020
- Hussainpeak 2024
- Luqmanpeak 2023
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.