Orion

maleStatistical record

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

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

Orion: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #406, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#406highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2024	#5891

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #406 among boys in England and Wales, #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #619 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 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
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #406 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Orion appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,125 births with the name.

Orion 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.

Orion'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	#2859 (1997)	#406 (2024)	#406 (2024)	28 of 28	1,125 (1997–2024)	100 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#582 (2024)	#676 (2025)	5 of 6	19 (2020–2025)	5 (2024)

Orion 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 Orion in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000s	127	10 of 10	13
2010s	527	10 of 10	53
2020sbusiest	456	5 of 10	91

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 91 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births fell by 32, from 95 to 63.

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

Orion 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 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #406 in England and Wales in 2024.

Orion'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	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#406	100	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#478	84	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#430	95	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#482	83	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#426	94	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#589	63	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#436	95	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#493	82	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#576	64	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#601	61	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#751	43	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#998	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1171	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #406, first reached in 2024.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, 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 3 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.

Cianna · #407, 28y
Aydin · #404, 29y
Royce · #404, 27y
Seb · #404, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Akshay · #406, 29y
Raheem · #406, 29y
Chay · #407, 28y
Kallie · #407, 29y

Orion was ranked #406 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Orion 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 Orion without appearing here.

Orion moved ahead of

Rodney Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1578 and #1361 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1156 and #3158.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #3225.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1716 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1168 and #2538.

Moved ahead of Orion

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #848.

Moved the opposite way to Orion

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Orion

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #406 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #406 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Orion

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Orion across 2 official records

Orion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Orion across 2 official records

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