Oran

Locally spelled אוראן in IL Israel and Óran in IE Ireland.

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Oran, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Cian
• Eoin
• Darragh
• Dara
• Fintan

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Oran is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Turkish surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye

  Also written Öran, Örán, Oràn, Örãn, Örän

• Spanish name22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Spain, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Orán, Öran, Ôran, Oràn, Õran

• French surname18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Algeria

  Also written Ôrân, Ôràn, Oràn, Orân, Ořąn

• Hindi name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Orán

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Óran, Öran, Orán

• Thai given name27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, United States, Indonesia

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written โอฬาร, Olarn, เอาฬาร, โอฬาริ, Olan

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Oran is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Algerian: province and coastal city in Algeria.

  as a name·African Names

• Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Odhran, originally a diminutive of odhar ‘dun’, ‘sallow’. The name was borne by various early saints, notably a 6th-century abbot of Meath who accompanied Columba to Scotland and is said to have been buried alive by the latter as a foundation sacrifice.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, seaport, Algeria

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, tree; gloss unclear in OCR

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• Verde

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Oran Milo Robertsb. 1815USAmerican politician (1815-1898)
• Bülent Oranb. 1924TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (1924–2004)
• Elaine Oranb. 1946USAmerican aerospace engineer, computer scientist, physicist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Oran mean, and where does it come from?

Diminutive of odhar, meaning 'green' or 'dun'; also a variant of Oaran. Recorded by Irish first names.

Which countries have the most people named Oran?

Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Oran in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oran. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Israel and India; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Oran?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,816 people named Oran in 2020, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.