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How popular is “Orel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Orel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Orel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Orel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Orel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Orel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Orel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Orel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 37 0.000020192 21 16 14%
1916 73 0.000037737 46 27 26%
1917 42 0.000020929 22 20 5%
1918 30 0.000013818 17 13 13%
1919 29 0.000013742 11 18 -24%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 7 9 -13%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 -100%
1924 21 0.000008818 21 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 6 11 -29%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 15 0.000003927 6 9 -20%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 -100%

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