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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Orell

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

158

peak year 1921

More common than

68%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
9 births
Best rank
#2,792
in 1936
First recorded
1915
#4,240 that year
Last recorded
1979
no later published record
Average birth year
1933
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
25 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19219#3,156Peak
  2. 19178#3,136
  3. 19308#3,220
  4. 19368#2,792
  5. 19518#3,005

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2,792 in 1936 · peak births 9 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 78% boys■ 22% girls

158 boys · 44 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 Orell has ranked, decade by decade

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