Oriôn
given name · Latin script
Oriôn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Orioun, from Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn), speculatively from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”), though without any firm evidence.
- ALAlbania1 in 10K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 22K
- SESweden1 in 30K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
15,212 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled O'Rion in US United States, Orion in BR Brazil and Orión in ES Spain.
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)
- Middle EnglishOrioun(measured from records)
- LatinŌrīōn(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekὨρίωνŌríōn(measured from records)
- Akkadian𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾Uru-anna“heaven's light”(measured from records)
From Middle English Orioun, from Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn), speculatively from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”), though without any firm evidence.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oriôn 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.
15,212 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling orion. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oriôn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English Orioun, from Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn), speculatively from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”), though without any firm evidence. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Oriôn a male or female name?
- Oriôn 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 Oriôn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Oriôn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled O'Rion.
- Where is Oriôn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oriôn is densest in Albania — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oriôn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,212 people named Oriôn in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ori%C3%B4nThe 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, “Oriôn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.