Orlando

Where Orlando comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Orlando
  • Italian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1968
    Orlando Jones born
    American stand-up comedian
  3. 1975
    Peak, #246
    843 babies named Orlando — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1977
    Orlando Bloom born
    English actor and model
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #654.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Orlando Bloom · English actor and model, born 1977
  • Orlando Jones · American stand-up comedian, born 1968
  • Orlando Gibbons · English composer, virginalist and organist, 1583–1625
  • Orlando Engelaar · Dutch footballer, born 1979
  • Orlando Peçanha · Brazilian footballer, 1935–2010

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.