Orley is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Orley has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Orley. That means that a boy named Orley is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Orley.
Is the name Orley a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1883 – at that time, it landed at position 607 with 8 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Orley is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Orley, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Orley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Orley born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Orley born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
Meeting a man or boy named Orley is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Orley can be found in only two: Kansas and Oklahoma. No other state currently has residents named Orley. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Orley living in one state or another. (If your name is Orley and you live outside of Kansas or Oklahoma, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Orley is in Kansas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Kansas, only 0.00028% of all male residents are called Orley – that’s just one in 352,727! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 10 men going by that name. So, if your name is Orley, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 Orley 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 Orley 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 Orley, you can simply say:
Orange
Rocket
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Orley
Orley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
R
L
E
Y
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
L
E
Y
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. Orley sounds like this:
