Name: Orlando
Gender: Male
Usage: Orlando is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Orlando are in general originating from Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Orlando across the world, see Roland.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Orlando is: Land of gold.
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Numerology of the first name Orlando: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Orlando is ranked on the 1,244th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 392000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.006% of the population. The name Orlando has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Orlando for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Orlando is 15 September.
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History and Origin
Orlando is a masculine given name, the Italian form of the given name Roland. Notable people with the name include:
- Orlando Baccino (born 1970), Argentine judoka
- Orlando Bloom (born 1977), British actor
- Orlando Bosch (1926-2011), Cuban exile militant and anti-Castro terrorist
- Orlando Bridgeman (disambiguation)
- Orlando Brown (actor) (born 1987), American actor
- Orlando Cabrera (born 1974), Colombian baseball player
- Orlando Canizales (born 1965), American boxer and International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion
- Orlando Cepeda (born 1937), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Orlando dos Santos Costa (born 1981), Brazilian footballer
- Orlando Engelaar (born 1979), Dutch footballer
- Orlando Figes (born 1959), British historian of Russia
- Orlando Jacinto Garcia (born 1954), Cuban-born American composer
- Orlando Luis Garcia (born 1952), United States district court judge
- Orlando Quintana (born 1978), Spanish football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Orlando Gatinchi (born 1957), Puerto Rican breaststroke swimmer
- Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625), English composer
- Orlando Gutiérrez (born 1976), Spanish footballer known as Orlando
- Orlando Hernández (born 1965), Cuban-born American baseball player
- Orlando Hudson (born 1977), American baseball player
- Orlando Jones (born 1968), American comedian and actor
- Orlando Jordan (born 1980), American professional wrestler
- Orlande de Lassus (1530 or 1532–1594), Franco-Flemish composer also known as Orlando di Lasso
- Orlando Letelier (1932–1976), Chilean economist, politician and diplomat
- Orlando Merced (born 1966), Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball player
- Orlando Pace (born 1975), American National Football League player
- Orlando Palmeiro (born 1969), former Major League Baseball player
- Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho (1935-2010), Brazilian football defender known as Orlando
- Orlando Peña (born 1933), Cuban former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Orlando Metcalfe Poe (1832-1895), Union Army general and engineer in the American Civil War
- Orlando M. Pilchard, nom de plume of Nick Pelling (born 1964), British computer programmer
- Orlando Pizzolato (born 1958), Italian long-distance runner
- Orlando Quintana (born 1978), Spanish football goalkeeper
- Orlando Reeves, eponym of Orlando, Florida
- Orlando Serrell (born 1968), American savant
- Orlando Smeekes (born 1981), Curaçaoan footballer
- Orlando Smith (born 1944), Premier of the British Virgin Islands
- Orlando Tubby Smith (born 1951), college basketball coach
- Orlando Vásquez (born 1969), Nicaraguan weightlifter
- Orlando Ward (1891–1972), American major general
- Orlando Woolridge (1959-2012), American National Basketball Association player
- Orlando Zapata (1967–2010), Cuban human rights activist
Italian form of Roland, occasionally used as a given name in the English-speaking world. It is the name of the hero in Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It.
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