Fun Facts About the Name Oriana
- More than 3 thousand babies named Oriana: U.S. records list 3,882 babies given the name Oriana from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Oriana Mean?
Oriana is a feminine name used mainly in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, with a French form, Oriane. It is most often explained as "golden," from the Latin aurum ("gold") and the related adjective aureus, "golden." A competing explanation connects it instead with Latin aurora, "dawn," or with oriens, "rising," the word behind the east and the rising sun. Because the two accounts point to different Latin words, the exact derivation is not firmly settled, though "golden" is the meaning usually given.
Oriana Name History & Origins
The name is best known through the Iberian chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, in which Oriana is the princess and the beloved of the knight Amadis. The romance was widely read in the sixteenth century, and translations and adaptations carried the name into French, Italian, and English, where the French form Oriane also circulated.
In England, Oriana was taken up as a poetic name for Queen Elizabeth I. The madrigal collection The Triumphs of Oriana, published in 1601, honored her under that name, and the epithet appears in Elizabethan verse. Alfred, Lord Tennyson later used it in "The Ballad of Oriana" (1830). In modern times the name has remained in use in Italy in particular.
How Popular is the Name Oriana?
Oriana has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2003. Its best rank was #1,327 in 1998.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,791 | 113 | 0.0070% |
| 2024 | #1,842 | 109 | 0.0068% |
| 2023 | #1,594 | 132 | 0.0082% |
| 2022 | #1,839 | 111 | 0.0068% |
| 2021 | #1,596 | 132 | 0.0081% |
| 2020 | #2,211 | 82 | 0.0051% |
| 2019 | #2,124 | 89 | 0.0053% |
| 2018 | #1,922 | 104 | 0.0061% |
| 2017 | #1,886 | 108 | 0.0063% |
| 2016 | #1,726 | 123 | 0.0069% |
| 2015 | #1,946 | 104 | 0.0058% |
| 2014 | #2,030 | 97 | 0.0054% |
| 2013 | #2,401 | 76 | 0.0043% |
| 2012 | #3,630 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2011 | #2,211 | 86 | 0.0049% |
| 2010 | #2,038 | 98 | 0.0055% |
| 2009 | #2,308 | 85 | 0.0046% |
| 2008 | #2,436 | 79 | 0.0042% |
| 2007 | #2,031 | 101 | 0.0053% |
| 2006 | #2,432 | 77 | 0.0041% |
| 2005 | #2,305 | 78 | 0.0042% |
| 2004 | #1,879 | 101 | 0.0055% |
| 2003 | #1,355 | 150 | 0.0082% |
| 2002 | #1,980 | 89 | 0.0050% |
| 2001 | #1,745 | 103 | 0.0057% |
| 2000 | #1,725 | 102 | 0.0056% |
| 1999 | #1,629 | 103 | 0.0058% |
| 1998 | #1,327 | 133 | 0.0075% |
| 1997 | #1,426 | 117 | 0.0067% |
| 1996 | #1,821 | 81 | 0.0046% |
| 1995 | #1,797 | 80 | 0.0045% |
| 1994 | #2,017 | 70 | 0.0039% |
| 1993 | #2,190 | 61 | 0.0034% |
| 1992 | #2,372 | 55 | 0.0030% |
| 1991 | #2,209 | 60 | 0.0032% |
| 1990 | #2,937 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 1989 | #2,470 | 47 | 0.0025% |
| 1988 | #2,851 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 1987 | #2,762 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 1986 | #3,109 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 1985 | #3,701 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1984 | #3,948 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 1983 | #3,215 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 1982 | #3,615 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 1981 | #3,215 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 1980 | #2,636 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 1979 | #3,046 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 1978 | #3,726 | 20 | 0.0013% |
| 1977 | #2,648 | 32 | 0.0021% |
| 1976 | #3,780 | 18 | 0.0012% |
| 1975 | #3,726 | 18 | 0.0012% |
| 1974 | #3,977 | 16 | 0.0011% |
| 1973 | #6,488 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1972 | #4,468 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1971 | #5,409 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1970 | #3,991 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1969 | #3,918 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1968 | #7,844 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1966 | #5,149 | 8 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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