Orhan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Orhan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Orhan: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #395, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#395highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2022
1998	#2419
1999	#2425
2000	#2501
2004	#2578
2008	#2507
2009	#3744
2011	#4647
2012	#3416
2013	#3315
2014	#3362
2015	#4747
2016	#2175
2017	#2512
2018	#1991
2019	#1986
2020	#1492
2021	#939
2022	#469
2023	#530
2024	#406

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 21 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #406 among boys in England and Wales, #478 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2022 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Orhan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 400 births with the name.

Orhan across 2 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.

Orhan'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2022 (1997)	#406 (2024)	#406 (2024)	21 of 28	400 (1997–2024)	100 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#755 (2021)	#584 (2023)	#676 (2025)	5 of 5	19 (2021–2025)	5 (2023)

Orhan by decade in England and Wales · 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 Orhan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000s	20	4 of 10	5
2010s	61	9 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	306	5 of 10	61

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 61 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 53, from 32 to 85.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Orhan appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #395 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Orhan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#406	100	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#530	73	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#469	85	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#939	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2175	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#584	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #395, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 100 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 27 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.

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.

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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.

Forrest · #392, 24y
Amiyah · #400, 21y
Albi · #404, 26y
Presley · #378, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Bennett · #395, 22y
Jameson · #395, 28y
Evie-Rose · #396, 22y
Mica · #396, 24y

Orhan was ranked #395 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2023. 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.

Orhan 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Orhan without appearing here.

Orhan moved ahead of

Isak Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #2052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1991 and #4749.
Brent Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4747 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2175 and #4810.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4747 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2175 and #4810.
Shannon Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #2507 and #4432.

Moved ahead of Orhan

Cillian Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2578 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #2507 and #987.
Filip Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2425 and #1664.
Hunter Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2022 and #2337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2419 and #1821.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2501 and #2142.

Moved the opposite way to Orhan

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Orhan

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orhan went from #2022 to #406 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #395 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Orhan across 2 official records

Orhan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Orhan across 2 official records

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