Oriana

Gender: Female Meaning of Oriana: "dawn" Origin of Oriana: Latin

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Oriana Origin and Meaning

The name Oriana is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "dawn".

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 search for names that mean new beginnings or dawn.

Strong and exotic, 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.

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Famous People Named Oriana

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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

Pop Culture References for the name Oriana

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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)

Orianna, Oria, Orieana, Orania, Oryan, Orelle, Orelda, Orane, Ori, Orian

Oriana's International Variations

Orianne, Oriane (French)

Comments

Raafat Says:

2019-04-19T11:48:52

this is the name of my beautiful smart niece :)

auroracallista Says:

2017-11-29T03:39:52

Is this too similar to "aurora"? I think it would be so sweet to have my daughter connected to me with a name that has the same meaning as mine.

**Azi*Cwater Says:**

2017-08-26T15:35:39

I like Oriana nn Nora

obow Says:

2017-06-11T01:18:06

This is my name! I love it. Most people call me Ori, but my mom still calls me Oriana every time. I'm definitely the only Oriana that I know of in my generation (80's born), it seems to be gaining popularity though as I've heard it on little ladies in recent years.