Orlando
- Pronunciation
- [Or-lan-do]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Renowned In The Land. Form Of Roland.
- Origin
- German
About the Name Orlando
Orlando is the Italian and Spanish form of Roland, a name built on the ancient Germanic elements hrod ("fame") and land ("land" or "territory"), yielding the meaning "renowned in the land." The name traveled from the Germanic tribal world into medieval Romance culture, where its Italian form Orlando became famous through the epic poems of Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto, whose hero Orlando Furioso made the name synonymous with chivalric adventure. Shakespeare also used the form in As You Like It. The name's recorded variants in this dataset are Land and Roland.
One of the most historically distinguished bearers of this name is Orlando Lassus, also known as Orlando di Lasso or Orlandus Lassus — a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance whom the bio describes as standing alongside Palestrina and Victoria as one of the great masters of late Renaissance polyphony, with dates of approximately 1532 to June 14, 1594. His prominence illustrates how deeply the name was embedded in European cultural life centuries before its American chart appearances.
Orlando first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and peaked in 2006 at rank #355. The name has demonstrated strong staying power, remaining on the chart continuously through 2024, with 288 births at rank #844 recorded that year. Total top-1000-qualifying births reached approximately 13,771. Its durability likely reflects both its warm Italian-Spanish sound and a steady pull from Latino naming traditions in the United States, where Orlando has long been a comfortable cross-cultural choice.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Orlando
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Orlando by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2007 with 860 boys named Orlando (boy rank #367 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #873 for boys (275 US births). That's 506 places below its 2007 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Orlando Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Orlando the strongest states are New Mexico, Texas, Nevada.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #316 | 58 |
| 2 | Texas | #464 | 642 |
| 3 | Nevada | #477 | 19 |
| 4 | Arizona | #535 | 116 |
| 5 | California | #566 | 518 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | #682 | 30 |
| 7 | Illinois | #704 | 113 |
| 8 | Colorado | #704 | 63 |
| 9 | Wisconsin | #715 | 34 |
| 10 | Massachusetts | #750 | 23 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #930 | 43 |
| 2 | New Jersey | #917 | 26 |
| 3 | Georgia | #902 | 67 |
| 4 | New York | #897 | 119 |
| 5 | Ohio | #886 | 49 |
| 6 | Missouri | #869 | 17 |
| 7 | Virginia | #861 | 39 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | #833 | 37 |
| 9 | Louisiana | #831 | 17 |
| 10 | Michigan | #804 | 55 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Orlando in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roland | Renowned In The Land. Roland Was A Legendary Hero Who Served Charlemagne. | Male | German |
Famous People Named Orlando
1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Orlando.
- Orlando Lassus was a great music composer credited with several great compositions in many music genres.
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Compare Orlando to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Orlando against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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