Oran

maleIrish

The root element (odar) is tagged by Behind the Name's own category system as relating to a dun or grayish-brown colour, but no source gives an explicit stated translation — treat this as a tentative, lower-confidence reading rather than a settled meaning.

Origin: Irish

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #49 in Northern Ireland in 2000. See regions.

Oran: Recorded since 1969, it reached #49 in 2000, and it stood at #272 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
113times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#49highest recorded position
23groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Oran's record

Moved 151 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

OH-rən/ˈoʊrən/

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Data Confidence

Evidence: ModerateCompleteness: SubstantialEditorial review: 2026-07-21

Confidence in the evidencebehind this name's data — never a rating of the name itself, and never affected by how well it matches your preferences. How this is assessed

Because: backed by officially or academically authoritative sources, recently verified, popularity data covers multiple regions.

Source authority

Averaged from the real per-claim source-authority assessments already computed for this name's meaning/origin/pronunciation/popularity evidence.

Independent corroboration

Averaged from the real per-claim supporting-source counts already computed for this name's evidence.

See full evidence assessment (8 dimensions, 1 not yet tracked)

Source agreement

No recorded source disagreement for this name's meanings or origins.

Recency

Calculated from how long ago this record was last verified (2026-07-21), against a 270-day staleness threshold.

Geographic relevance

Calculated from the number of geographies with official popularity data (4) — broader official coverage means the evidence base is relevant to more of where the name is actually used.

Completeness

Calculated from how many of the expected data sections (variants, similar names, popularity, notable usage, IPA pronunciation) are actually populated for this name.

Direct observation vs. inference

Averaged from the real per-claim direct-observation-vs-inference ratios already computed for this name's evidence.

Identity & variant resolution quality

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Name Characteristics

How these are calculated

Descriptive attributes of the name itself — not a confidence measurement, and not an overall quality score. Namewise doesn't approve or disapprove of names.

Pronunciation clarity

Editorial judgement of how consistently this name is pronounced correctly on first read, mapped from an easy/moderate/variable rating to a number. Describes the name — not a measure of evidence confidence.

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling: shorter names with fewer irregular letter clusters score higher. A disclosed formula, not an editorial opinion — and not a confidence measurement.

Recorded regional spread

Derived from how many geographies' official statistics record this name. It measures where the name is registered, not how well-known it feels to people living there.

International spread

Derived from the same official statistical coverage, scaled to reflect how widely the name crosses national datasets. Not a measure of how easily it is understood in another language.

Trend stability

Derived from the name's traditional/modern classification and its current popularity trend direction.

Overview

Origin: Irish
Meaning: The root element (odar) is tagged by Behind the Name's own category system as relating to a dun or grayish-brown colour, but no source gives an explicit stated translation — treat this as a tentative, lower-confidence reading rather than a settled meaning.
Pronunciation: OH-rən
Syllables: 2
Common nicknames: None recorded
Classification: Traditional & modern
Gender usage: male
Language family: Irish

Popularity

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#2022
1998	#1055
1999	#869
2000	#794
2001	#751
2002	#907
2003	#1053
2004	#1410
2005	#1047
2006	#1280
2007	#1252
2008	#1156
2009	#1218
2010	#1551
2011	#1447
2012	#1669
2013	#1086
2014	#1281
2015	#1186
2016	#1570
2017	#1210
2018	#1040
2019	#1587
2020	#1548
2021	#1184
2022	#1029
2023	#942
2024	#1132
2025	#1538

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 54 of the 57 years from 1969 to 2025.

In 2025: #272 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1538 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1969–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #246 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1538 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Oran appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 54 years beginning in 1969, and has registered 1,759 births with the name.

Oran across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Oran's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#246 (1969)	#78 (2005)	#272 (2025)	54 of 57	1,759 (1969–2025)	99 (2010)
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#751 (2001)	#1538 (2025)	30 of 30	564 (1996–2025)	32 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#139 (1997)	#49 (2000)	#164 (2024)	28 of 28	822 (1997–2024)	65 (2000)

Oran by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Oran in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	5	1 of 10	5
1970s	39	8 of 10	5
1980s	38	9 of 10	4
1990s	129	10 of 10	13
2000s	685	10 of 10	69
2010sbusiest	696	10 of 10	70
2020s	167	6 of 10	28

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 70 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2000 and 2001, when recorded births rose by 26, from 27 to 53.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Oran appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1969 and 2025, ranked in 54 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #49, first reached in 2000.

It held a top-100 place in 17 years, 17 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 99 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2010.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 55 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Oran was ranked #49 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Robert#45
Scott#46
Kyle#47
Caolan#48
Reece#50
Connor#51
Liam#52
Shane#53

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ophelia-Rose · #1206, 10y
Opie · #1104, 11y
Orelia · #2788, 10y
Oren · #611, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lynne · #49, 51y
Aron · #52, 53y
Tiernan · #52, 55y
Francesca · #53, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Dion · #50, 46y
Isobel · #50, 60y
Padraig · #50, 62y
Alva · #47, 47y

Oran and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Oran without appearing here.

Oran moved ahead of

Johannes
In 2012 they stood at #1669 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1086 and #2660.
Grant
In 2012 they stood at #1669 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1086 and #2055.
Roger
In 2020 they stood at #1548 and #1548 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1184 and #2125.
Calum
In 2020 they stood at #1548 and #1192 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1184 and #1984.

Moved ahead of Oran

Arlo
In 2003 they stood at #1053 and #1188 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #875.
Ronny
In 2024 they stood at #1132 and #1460 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2025 that had become #1538 and #1093.
Rune
In 2024 they stood at #1132 and #1460 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2025 that had become #1538 and #1124.
Mathias
In 2013 they stood at #1086 and #1247 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1281 and #889.

Moved the opposite way to Oran

Geoffrey
Between 1969 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #246 to #145 while Geoffrey went from #109 to #779.
Ashley
Between 1969 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #246 to #132 while Ashley went from #246 to #637.
Jon
Between 1975 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #265 to #133 while Jon went from #236 to #764.
Ronald
Between 1969 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #246 to #83 while Ronald went from #123 to #718.

Moved the same way as Oran

Barry
Between 1997 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #139 to #207 and Barry from #90 to #414.
Gary
Between 1997 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #139 to #207 and Gary from #57 to #352.
Noel
Between 1997 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #139 to #207 and Noel from #169 to #414.
Philip
Between 1997 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Oran went from #139 to #207 and Philip from #51 to #311.

Meaning & Origin

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Irish

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

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Where Oran is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Oran, between 1969 and 2025, in 54 of those 57 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1969–2025	54	#78 in 2005
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#751 in 2001
Northern Ireland	1997–2024	28	#49 in 2000
Scotland	2024	1	#121 in 2024

Its high point came 24 years earlier in Northern Ireland (2000) than in Scotland (2024).

Variants

No spelling variants or nicknames recorded yet.

Similar Names

No similar names recorded yet for this name.

Similarity is a demonstration score — see methodology.

Spelling

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling — see Name Characteristics above.

No commonly used alternate spellings recorded.

Pronunciation

OH-rən/ˈoʊrən/

Syllables: 2
Ease: easy

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Where Oran Is Recorded

National statistical agencies have recorded Oran in these places. This shows where the name is used — not where it comes from, and not that it carries particular cultural significance there.

England and WalesNorthern IrelandScotlandRepublic of Ireland

Notable Usage

No safely-sourced notable usage recorded for this name yet.

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Oran

Oran at a glance

What stands out in Oran's record

Overview

Popularity

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Oran across 3 official records

Oran by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Oran appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Oran

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Oran and the names beside it

Oran moved ahead of

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Meaning & Origin

Where Oran is officially recorded

Variants

Similar Names

Spelling

Pronunciation

Where Oran Is Recorded

Notable Usage

Sibling & Surname Compatibility

Oran at a glance

What stands out in Oran's record

Oran across 3 official records

Oran by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Oran appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Oran

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Oran and the names beside it

Oran moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Oran

Moved the opposite way to Oran

Moved the same way as Oran