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 #370, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2024

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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 2025.

In 2025: #370 among boys in England and Wales, #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

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

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 recorded1997–2025
Highest recorded position: #370 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 1997–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #370 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Orion appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,238 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)	#370 (2025)	#370 (2025)	29 of 29	1,238 (1997–2025)	113 (2025)
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	569	6 of 10	95

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 95 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 Wales has 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.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #370 in England and Wales in 2025.

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
2025	England and Wales	male	#370	113	High	Verified
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.

Where Orion is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Orion, between 1997 and 2025. 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.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1997–2025	29	#370 in 2025
Republic of Ireland	2020–2025	5	#582 in 2024
Scotland	2024	1	#619 in 2024

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 113 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

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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Orla · #19, 62y

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.

Elana · #370, 30y
Ephraim · #370, 30y
Jazmine · #370, 30y
Lily-Anne · #370, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aime · #370, 17y
Cassidy · #370, 30y
Elana · #370, 30y
Ephraim · #370, 30y

Orion was ranked #370 in England and Wales · Boys in 2025. 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.

Coby#367
Izhaan#367
Reign#367
Aris#370
Declan#372
Kobe#372
Laurie#372
Ziggy#372

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 2,576 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
In 2007 they stood at #1578 and #1361 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1156 and #3158.
Kelly
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #3225.
Shannon
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1651 and #3225.
Brent
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
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
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 while Aaron went from #32 to #180.
Alan
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 while Alan went from #179 to #539.
Alex
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 while Alex went from #43 to #207.
Alexander
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 while Alexander went from #16 to #40.

Moved the same way as Orion

Albie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 and Albie from #914 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 and Alfred from #192 to #76.
Archie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Orion went from #2859 to #370 and Archie from #141 to #11.

What is known about Orion

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1997–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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: #370 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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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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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Orion

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