Oriana
About Oriana
Oriana is a dashing medieval name, with a meaning similar to Aurora. At this point, though, Oriana is much more unusual than Aurora and makes a unique choice if you're searching for names that mean new beginnings or dawn.
Strong and evocative, Oriana also has an admirable literary resume. In medieval tales, she was the beloved of the knight Amadis, she appears in at least three seventeenth century plays, and there is an early Tennyson poem called The Ballad of Oriana. Oriana was also sometimes used to refer to Queen Elizabeth I. Oriana Fallaci was a feminist Italian journalist who interviewed many world leaders in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
As of October 2026, Oriana ranked #1791 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1327 in 1998, Nameberry popularity #535.
Editor's take: The name Oriana is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "dawn; gold".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,030 | 97 | 54.3 |
| 2015 | #1,946 | 104 | 58.3 |
| 2016 | #1,726 | 123 | 69.4 |
| 2017 | #1,886 | 108 | 62.6 |
| 2018 | #1,922 | 104 | 61.1 |
| 2019 | #2,124 | 89 | 53 |
| 2020 | #2,211 | 82 | 50.7 |
| 2021 | #1,596 | 132 | 80.4 |
| 2022 | #1,839 | 111 | 67.7 |
| 2023 | #1,594 | 132 | 82.3 |
| 2024 | #1,842 | 109 | 67.3 |
| 2025 | #1,791 | 113 | 70.3 |
World rankings
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Oriana on lists
Famous Orianas
- Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist
- Oriana Pooles
English actress
- Oriana Panozzo
Australian actress
- Oriana Civile
Italian singer
- Oriana Bandiera
Italian economist
- Oriana Scheuss
Swiss sport shooter
- (Oriana) Clare Tickell
English affordable housing activist
- Oriana Huxley Waller
cousin of novelist Aldous Huxley
- Oriana Small
birth name of Ashley Blue, American adult film actress and radio personality
Oriana in pop culture
- Oriana
character in Fletcher's 'The Wild Goose Chase'
- Oriana
character in Farquhar's 'The Inconstant'
- Oriana
teasing, tormenting, brilliant woman in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'The Woman,hater'
- Princess Oriana
character in 'Felix the Cat' (1959)
- Oriana
1861 painting by Pre,Raphaelite artist Frederick Sandys
- Oriana
character in Gabriel Lord's '365 Days' book series
- Oriana Lawson
minor character in the video games Mass Effect 2 and 3
- "Oriana
" 1985 Venezuelan film and its main character
- Oriana
character in Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's "A Fada Oriana" (The Fairy Oriana)
Variations & nicknames
- OrianneFrench
- OrianeFrench