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The first name 
Orin

Orin is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.

When two boys called Orin meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Orin is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Orin. In the SmartGenius ranking, Orin is #1,646 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Orin.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Orin

Orin -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Orin annualy. This means that there have been boys named Orin who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Orin have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Orin even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record at rank #352 in the list of the most popular boys' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Orin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Orin 2022 among young parents?

Orin has never been ranked higher than #352. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,574 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 96 boys named Orin were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Orin were born, there have been 41 newborns who received this name.

Orin -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Orin, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Orin. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Orin living in one state or another. If your name is Orin and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Wisconsin, which has the most people named Orin relative to the population, you still have to ask 21,712 men and boys their names before you hear Orin as an answer just once.

Orin has 4 letters 
and begins with an O

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an O. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With four letters, the name Orin is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that since 1.8% of all boys’ names begin with an O, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names beginning with an O, which are quite popular

Other names with 
O, r, i and n

If you take all the letters in the name Orin – O, r, i and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Onir or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Orin

If your name is Orin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Orin

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Orin, you can simply say:

Orange

Rocket

Igloo

Nut

This is how the name Orin is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Orin in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Orin

Orin

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Orin

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Orin is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

O
R
I
N

Have you ever waved the name Orin

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

O
R
I
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Orin sounds like this: