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Orlando

Pronounced /ɔɹˈlæn.doʊ/

Rank in 2024
#842
Born in 2024
288
Peak year
1987 · #255
Origin
Italian

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 288 boys were named Orlando, about 1 in every 5,956.
  • It peaked in 1987 with 877 babies, ranked #255.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 49,177 boys have been named Orlando since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Orlando per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.4
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,619 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 1,896 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,285 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen X: 10,592 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,804 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Z: 11,219 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,506 babies, 0.21 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Italian Orlando (“Roland”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland. The city in Florida has gone by the name since 1857, perhaps in honor of the soldier Orlando Reeves, whom the Seminoles killed there in 1835. Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan. Doublet of Roland.

  • A male given name from Italian.
  • A surname from Italian derived from the given name.
Origin
Italian
Say it
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Orlando, CC BY-SA 4.0.