Ori
Hebrew for "my light". Fewer than 400 people in Poland carry it, most of them men, and odds are you have never met one.
Ori Pronunciation
Ori is pronounced O-ree (/ˈɔri/).
What Ori means
Where Ori comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ori comes from Hebrew, built on the root or, which means light. To it Hebrew adds a short ending that means my. Read together, the name says my light. The meaning sits close to the surface. It is the same or as in the words of Genesis, yehi or, let there be light.
The name is Jewish in its associations and still current in Israel, where people carry it in daily life. The photographer Ori Gersht, born in Tel Aviv, is one documented bearer.
On a Polish class register Ori would be brief, four letters and done. It has no diminutive here and no Polish variant to soften it, so the name arrives as itself. What a child hears, then, is a plain claim in Hebrew: my light.
How many people are named Ori
1 in 65883 men in Poland is named Ori. 379 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1527 among male names.
Ori's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Ori as a middle name
Ori is a first name for 379 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3998th, between Oren (7) and Oumar (7).
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#3998 Ori7
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