Orin

Meaning: Little dun one
Origin: Variant of Odhrán · from Old Irish odur 'dun' with diminutive -án (from Irish, anglicized from Odhrán)

Boy's name · #1859 in the US (2025) · Vintage

Popularity over time

Orin is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1880, when it ranked #391. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 6,300 boys since 1880, ranked #1859 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 6 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#733 in Scotland (2025) · #1,002 in Ireland (2025) · #1,053 in England & Wales (2025).

Famous Orins

Orin de Waard — Football player
Orin Kerr — American legal scholar
Orin C. Smith — American businessman (1942–2018)
Orin G. Murfin — United States Navy admiral (1876–1956)
Orin Fowler — American politician

In stories & tradition

Orin Mannon — Mourning Becomes Electra (book)

What Orins become

Among 45 notable people named Orin:

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Orrin (#2278), Orin would rank around #1315 with about 150 births last year — the newborns split about 58/42 between Orin and Orrin.

Similar names: Orrin · Angus · Orson · Ellison · Torin · Sloan

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