Orlà
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Orlà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Anglicized version of Irish Órfhlaith (“golden princess”), from ór (“gold”) + flaith (“princess”).
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 42K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Orla in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 2 more.
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)
Anglicized version of Irish Órfhlaith (“golden princess”), from ór (“gold”) + flaith (“princess”).
Sources 4
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orlà 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 371K | — | Orla | 8 |
| IE Ireland | #161 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 37 | Orla | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 746 | Orla | 184 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,370 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,001 | 1 in 332K | 865 | Orla | 221 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 5 | Orla | 87 |
| GY Guyana | — | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | 1 |
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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orlà mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized version of Irish Órfhlaith (“golden princess”), from ór (“gold”) + flaith (“princess”). Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Orlà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Orlà in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orla.
- How common is the name Orlà?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,370 people named Orlà, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Orlà compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Orlà is the 161st most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orl%C3%A0The 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, “Orlà” — the 161st most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.