Orlando

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• Matteo
• Marco
• Lorenzo
• Leonardo
• Bloom

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.

Orlando is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Canada

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Ôrlando, Orlandö, Orlãndô, Orländo, Örlándö

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Orlándo

• Thai given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand

  Also written ออร์ลันโด, ออร์ลันโด้, ออร์แลนโด้, ออร์แลนโด, Orlandõ

• Norwegian name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway

  Also written Örlândö

78 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.

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 name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In English, Italian form of Roland; famed throughout the land; Shakespeare's hero in As You Like It

  as a name·Baby 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 name·Dizionario 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 name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

• In Italian, de Rolando, com inversão de ro- para or-

  as a name·Dicionário 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.

• Vittorio Emanuele Orlandob. 1860ITItalian diplomat (1860–1952)
• Ernest Lawrenceb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
• Orlando Bloomb. 1977GBEnglish actor and model (born 1977)

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).

125 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 62 countries.

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

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.

Which countries have the most people named Orlando?

Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Orlando in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orlando. After it come Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.