Orla-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- OR-la-RAY
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Orla-Rae is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “golden princess + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Orla-Rae mean?
Irish: Orla + Rae
“golden princess + ewe”
Joins Orla (Irish, “golden princess”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Orla and Rae.
Is Orla-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Orla-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Orla-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 46% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Orla-Rae, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 9 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Orla-Rae than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Orla-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Orla-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
Names like Orla-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeve, Fiadh, Orla, Eden, Kiara, Cassidy, Aoibheann, Eireann, Ocean, Rowan, Aoife, Quinn
More Irish names
Oscar, Rory, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy, Callan, Lennon, Cillian
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Orla-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/orla-rae, updated 20 October 2026.