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                              April 20, 2022

       Drake Mills
       Chief Executive Officer
       Origin Bancorp, Inc.
       500 South Service Road East
       Ruston, LA 71270

                                                        Re: Origin Bancorp,
Inc.
                                                            Registration
Statement on Form S-4
                                                            Filed April 13,
2022
                                                            File No. 333-264279

       Dear Mr. Mills:

              We have limited our review of your registration statement to
those issues we have
       addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to
provide us with
       information so we may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to this letter by amending your registration
statement and providing the
       requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your
facts and
       circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell
us why in your
       response.

              After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and
the information you
       provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Registration Statement on Form S-4

       Opinion of BTH's Financial Advisor, page 50

   1.                                                   Please disclose here
and on page 62 the financial projections provided by BTH's and
                                                        Origin's management and
used by Piper Sandler and Stephens to perform their respective
                                                        financial analyses.
       Exhibits

   2.                                                   Please file the voting
agreements referenced as Exhibit B and Exhibit C to Annex A as
                                                        exhibits to your
registration statement.
   3.                                                   Please file the consent
of each director nominee as an exhibit to your registration
                                                        statement. Refer to
Rule 438 of Regulation C.
 Drake Mills
Origin Bancorp, Inc.
April 20, 2022
Page 2

        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

       Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please
allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of
the registration
statement.

      Please contact Tonya K. Aldave at (202) 551-3601 or J. Nolan McWilliams,
Acting Legal
Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3217 with any questions.



                                                           Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameDrake Mills
                                                           Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameOrigin Bancorp, Inc.
                                                           Office of Finance
April 20, 2022 Page 2
cc:       Kevin Strachan, Esq.
FirstName LastName