Orlando
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Orlando is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian and Spanish; means “man of renowned land”; used for men.
- PEPeru≈1 in 825(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.6K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 443
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
- 448 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 443 (inferred from the name graph)
≈88,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Italian and Spanish; means “man of renowned land”; used for men.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orlando 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 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Orlando | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 79,927 | 1 in 2.6K | 101K | Orlando | 172 |
| CO Colombia | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 635 | 59 | Orlando | 162 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 443 | — | Orlando | 105 |
| US United States | 57,035 | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Orlando | 448 |
| AR Argentina | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 905 | 4.4K | — | 128 |
| PE Peru | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | — | Orlando | 114 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 450 | — | Orlando | 75 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Orlando 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.
In French, Italian form of Roland; Germ. 'fame of the land'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, Italian form of Roland; famed throughout the land; Shakespeare's hero in As You Like It
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Italian, nome germanico da hrod/hruod 'glorioso' + land 'paese, terra'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Radici gerrnaniche hrod, hruod = glorioso e land . = paese. L a popolariti acquistata dal nome del princi- pale eroe dell'eyopea carolingia induce a ritedere come probabiii~aimoc h ~ da eseo, anzichA da altri nomi ger- manici di uguale desinenza, derivino i cognomi Landi, -dini, -doai, -ducci. Rolandi, .do prevale in Piemonte. Orlandi, -do, ecc. nelle altre parti d'Italia.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, de Rolando, com inversão de ro- para or-
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Orlando Gibbonsb. 1583GBEnglish composer, virginalist and organist (1583-1625)
- Vittorio Emanuele Orlandob. 1860ITItalian diplomat (1860–1952)
- Ernest Lawrenceb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
- Mario Benedettib. 1920UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (1920-2009)
- Silvio Orlandob. 1957ITItalian actor
- Orlando Jonesb. 1968USAmerican stand-up comedian
- Sizzlab. 1976JMnot in their usual nameJamaican reggae musician
- Orlando Bloomb. 1977GBEnglish actor and model (born 1977)
- Orlando Brownb. 1987USAmerican actor, rapper and singer
- Johnny Orlandob. 2003CACanadian singer-songwriter (born 2003)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 125 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 101K | #472 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 80K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 80K | #381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57K | #825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,939 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 362 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 275 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 257 | #381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 161 | #825 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orlando mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian and Spanish; means “man of renowned land”; used for men. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How common is the name Orlando?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 79,927 people named Orlando in 2022, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- In which country does Orlando have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 88 thousand people named Orlando in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orlando.
What do you want to know about Orlando?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orlandoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Orlando”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.