Orby
given name · Latin script
Meaning: having characteristics of an orb
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔɹbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Orby is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
2 people
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Örby in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
having characteristics of an orb
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | Örby | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | — | 10 | Orby | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 48 | — | 4 |
2 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Orby Hunterb. 1716British Member of Parliament (died 1769)
- Orby Shipleyb. 1832GBEnglish liturgical scholar and Roman Catholic convert (1832-1916)
- George Orby Wombwellb. 1832GBBritish baronet (1832-1913)
- Terence Conranb. 1931GBnot in their usual nameBritish restaurateur and designer (1931–2020)
- George Orby Hunter(1773?–1843), army officer and translator
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #27,660 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orby mean, and where does it come from?
- having characteristics of an orb Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Orby?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔɹbi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Orby a male or female name?
- Orby is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Orby have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 2 people named Orby, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Orby most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Orby is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Costa Rica holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Orby?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Orby, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Orby?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orbyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Orby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.