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Gender: Male Meaning of Orlando: "famous throughout the land" Origin of Orlando: Italian variation of Roland Orlando's Popularity in 2017: #653

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The name Orlando is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "famous throughout the land". Orlando is ranked #653 on our popularity charts and is often added to lists like Cool Boy Names From Around the World and discussed in our forums with posts like "A brother or sister for little Jack or Olivia".

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Orlando, the ornate Italianate twist on the dated Roland, with a literary heritage stretching back to Shakespeare and before, has appealing book-ended o's, and is open to combination with almost any last name, a la British actor, Orlando Bloom.

Orlando has an impressive literary résumé, including the poem "Orlando Furioso,", Handel's opera "Orlando", Shakespeare's As You Like It and Virginia Woolf's gender-bending novel. Most recently, Orlando was a character in The Wire.

Orlando Bloom's name was inspired by that of the sixteenth century composer, Orlando Gibbons. It is also the first name of several outstanding athletes--including Orlandos Woolridge, Cabrera and Cepeda, and is, of course, a place name, home of Disney World in Florida.

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Famous People Named Orlando

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Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom, English actor
Orlando Jones, American actor
Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player
Orlando Canizales, American boxer
Orlando Woolridge, former American basketball player
Orlando Thomas, former American football player
Orlando Metcalfe Poe, United States Army officer
(Daniel) Orlando Smith, 1st Premier of the British Virgin islands
Orlando Scandrick, American football player
Orlando Franklin, American football player
Orlando Palmeiro, American baseball player
Orlando Brown, American actor
Tony Orlando, American pop singer

Pop Culture References for the name Orlando

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Orlando, character from Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
Orlando Pabotoy, character from "Strangers with Candy"
Orlando Khan, character from "Gabriel and the Swallows" by Esther Dalseno
Orlando, Florida, USA