Orlah

Orlah was the #539 girls' name in Scotland in 2025 (5 babies).

Orlah as a girl’s name

  • England & Wales
  • Scotland
Orlah as a girl’s name, England & Wales, ScotlandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1974–2025, for England & Wales, Scotland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.250.50.75119801990200020102020Scotland
Orlah as a girl’s name, England & Wales, ScotlandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1974–2025, for England & Wales, Scotland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.250.50.751198020002020
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearEngland & WalesScotland
2025—#539 (5)
2024#4,844 (4)#638 (4)
2023#3,599 (6)—
2022#2,889 (8)#303 (11)
2021#2,711 (9)#558 (5)
2020#2,615 (9)#399 (8)
2019#3,151 (7)—
2018#2,901 (8)#348 (10)
2017#3,229 (7)#501 (6)
2016#2,547 (10)#453 (7)
2015#4,103 (5)#455 (7)
2014#3,514 (6)#537 (6)
2013#2,649 (9)#816 (3)
2012#3,285 (7)#580 (5)
2011#5,785 (3)#810 (3)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in Scotland in 2022 at #303.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in Scotland in 2011.

How common is it?

about 1 in 3,600 baby girls in the published Scotland list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.