Orrin

See also: orrin

English

Alternative forms

• Orin

Proper noun

Orrin

1. A male given name from Irish of obscure origin, possibly a variant of Oren or Oran.
   • 2008, Diana DeGette, Daniel Paisner, Sex, science, and stem cells: inside the right wing assault on reason, page 110:

     During the press conference, Orrin Hatch and the others spoke very graciously about our extraordinary efforts in getting this bill passed […]

   • 2009, Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke, Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's:

     On June 3, 1931, she married Orrin Frink, Jr., who had joined the mathematics faculty at Penn State in 1928 as an assistant professor.