Orlando
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About Orlando
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.
As of October 2026, Orlando ranked #873 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #246 in 1975, Nameberry popularity #617.
Editor's take: The name Orlando is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "famous throughout the land".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #562 | 493 | 256.7 |
| 2015 | #613 | 438 | 228.5 |
| 2016 | #622 | 430 | 226.6 |
| 2017 | #654 | 393 | 212.3 |
| 2018 | #669 | 379 | 208.7 |
| 2019 | #723 | 337 | 187.8 |
| 2020 | #772 | 307 | 177.9 |
| 2021 | #756 | 334 | 190.9 |
| 2022 | #811 | 307 | 175.8 |
| 2023 | #775 | 329 | 192.3 |
| 2024 | #844 | 288 | 167.2 |
| 2025 | #873 | 275 | 161 |
World rankings
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Famous Orlandos
- 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
Orlando in pop culture
- 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