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The first name 
Orlie

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

Orlie – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Orlie 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 Orlie. That means that a boy named Orlie is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life.

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

Orlie -
a Dinosaur?

Is the name Orlie a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1885 – at that time, it landed at position 799 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Orlie 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 Orlie, 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 Orlie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Orlie in 2022 - someone's missing!

If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Orlie 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 Orlie born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!

Orlie has 5 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 five letters, the name Orlie 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

Other names with 
O, r, l, i and e

If you take all the letters in the name Orlie – O, r, l, i and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Oriel or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Orlie

If your name is Orlie 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 Orlie

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

Orange

Rocket

Lion

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Orlie 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 Orlie in Braille?

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

Orlie

Orlie

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

O
R
L
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Orlie

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
I
E

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. Orlie sounds like this: