Orpha
Orpha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 263rd, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1917204 births
- Best rank
- #263in 1885
- Since 1880
- 5,969people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,969 girls have been named Orpha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 204 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 204 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 24%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Orpha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 431 | |
| 1890s | 773 | |
| 1900s | 783 | |
| 1910s | 1,404 | |
| 1920s | 1,307 | |
| 1930s | 611 | |
| 1940s | 289 | |
| 1950s | 157 | |
| 1960s | 81 | |
| 1970s | 56 | |
| 1980s | 39 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 16 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Orpha was the 451st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Orpha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Hilmapeak 1915
- Blanchepeak 1917
- Zulapeak 1922
- Oniepeak 1918
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Ethapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.