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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Orel

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#11,643

up +2,073 places

2025 births

6

up +1 births

All-time births

562

1% of them in 2025

More common than

84%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1916
27 births
Best rank
#1,008
in 1883
First recorded
1883
#1,008 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1953
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
64 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191627#1,325Peak
  2. 192421#1,762
  3. 191720#1,680
  4. 191918#1,861
  5. 191516#1,865

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,008 in 1883 · peak births 27 in 1916

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 81% boys■ 19% girls

562 boys · 136 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Orel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.