The meaning of the name Orion is uncertain, but it is possibly related to Greek ‘horion’ meaning ‘boundary, limit’. In Greek mythology, Orion is a giant hunter, who was placed among the stars as the constellation of the same name.
Orion is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Orion isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Orion ranks 332. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Orion. In the entire USA, approximately 16,992 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Orion. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The meaning of the name Orion is uncertain, but it is possibly related to Greek ‘horion’ meaning ‘boundary, limit’. In Greek mythology, Orion is a giant hunter, who was placed among the stars as the constellation of the same name.
As a given name,... Orion ihas been in use since at least the 5th century.
The name Orion may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Orion is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,445 men in Alaska is called Orion. In total, that’s 174 people who feel addressed when the name Orion is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #247 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Orion as the answer a total of 16,992 times. This places Orion at #722 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Orion as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 five letters, the name Orion is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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
If your name is Orion 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Orion, you can simply say:
Orange
Rocket
Igloo
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Orion
Orion
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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
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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. Orion sounds like this:
