Orlah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- OR-la
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- Style
- Big in Scotland
Orlah is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “golden princess”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Orlah mean?
Irish: spelling of Orla, from Órlaith
“golden princess”
A variant spelling of Orla, the anglicised form of the Irish Órlaith.
Is Orlah a girl's or a boy's name?
Orlah 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 Orlah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 51% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Orlah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,780th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 19 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Orlah than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Orlah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,025 girls in the UK were given Orlah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #52, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 539th in Scotland.
Orlah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 19 | #1,667 |
| 2021 | 14 | #2,069 |
| 2020 | 17 | #1,780 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 17 | #1,853 |
| 2015 | 12 | #2,328 |
| 2014 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2013 | 12 | #2,309 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 2 | #6,929 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
Names like Orlah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Fiadh, Eden, Aoibheann, Quinn, Aoife, Eireann, Caoimhe, Cassidy, Clodagh, Raegan, Ocean, Kiara
Other spellings of Orlah
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy, Callan
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, “Orlah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/orlah, updated 20 October 2026.