Orleans

loc · Latin script

Meaning: county. VT; town. MA

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Orleans is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 264K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 809K
  • FIFinland≈1 in 926K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

802 people, 2022

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 264K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

county. VT; town. MA

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Orleans 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.

Where Orleans is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8021 in 264K844Orleans57
CO Colombia≈47 est.≈1 in 1M—Orleans11
US United States≈41 est.≈1 in 8.1M354Orleans49
FR France≈11 est.≈1 in 6.3M—Orleans1
PE Peru≈11 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Orleans13
FI Finland≈6 est.≈1 in 926K10—1
UY Uruguay≈4 est.≈1 in 809K1Orleans2
CR Costa Rica31 in 1.7M3—2

802 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Orleans is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Orléans, Orleāns, Orlèans

  • French name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, Guinea, Senegal

    Also written Orléans, Orlèans, Órleans, Orlêans

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Orléans

44 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Orleans 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 English, county, NY

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, town, France

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, parish. LA

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Catalan, Orleans (a city in Centre-Val de Loire, France)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Occitan, Orleans (a city in France)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

188019001920194019601980Jacob S. Orleans, b. 1899Danny Orleans, b. 1954Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria, b. 1968

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 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Orleans
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—516#16,615
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020354#61,280
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000311#60,557
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010306#64,891
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Orleans mean, and where does it come from?
county. VT; town. MA Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Orleans have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 802 people named Orleans, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orleans.
Where is Orleans most common?
Orleans is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Orleans?
In Brazil, the national register counted 802 people named Orleans in 2022, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.

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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, “Orleans”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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