Orlando
About 49,696 American babies have been named Orlando since 1880, most of them around 1987. In 2025 it ranked 871st. About 42,000 Orlandos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Orlando boys named Orlando
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 49,696
- Estimated living today
- 42,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1987
- Best rank
- 255th
- Rank in 2025
- 871st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 242 / 49,454
How old the living Orlandos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 49,696 babies given the name since 1880, about 42,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 7,900 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Orlandos
- Orlando Bloom (born 1977)English actor and model
- Orlando Jones (born 1968)American stand-up comedian
- Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)English composer, virginalist and organist
- Orlando Engelaar (born 1979)Dutch footballer
- Orlando Peçanha (1935–2010)Brazilian footballer
- Orlando Beltran Quevedo (born 1939)Filipino cardinal
- Orlando Figes (born 1959)British historian
- Orlando Letelier (1932–1976)Chilean economist and diplomat
People named Orlando with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Orlando is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Orlando is most concentrated in New Mexico (8.2×), Arizona (2.7×), Texas (2.2×), Colorado (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1987
The most popular boys’ names the year Orlando peaked:
Orlando elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Orlando | 1,945 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Orlando | 1,595 | 439th |
| France boys | Orlando | 1,450 | 354th |
| Switzerland boys | Orlando | 299 | 318th |
| Belgium boys | Orlando | 116 | 585th |
| Poland boys | Orlando | 63 birth registrations | 325th |
| Ireland boys | Orlando | 11 | 439th |
| Scotland boys | Orlando | 3 | 701st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Orlando: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Orlando | 256 | 0.021% | 231st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Orlando | 23 | 0.005% | 457th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Orlando | 18 | 0.028% | 93rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Orlando | 2 | 0.054% | 18th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Orlando is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.02% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Orlando: rank by region
In 2025, Orlando was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Orlando | 589 | 9 |
In 2023, Orlando was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Orlando | 9 | 2 |
In 2020, Orlando was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Orlando | 274 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Orlando by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Orlando among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Orlando | 13 | 55 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Orlando lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,335 men called Orlando were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Orlando | 928 | 1.595 | 87 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Orlando | 325 | 0.610 | 206 |
| Lugo | Orlando | 85 | 0.537 | 206 |
| Asturias | Orlando | 215 | 0.444 | 241 |
| Ourense | Orlando | 62 | 0.423 | 252 |
| Pontevedra | Orlando | 156 | 0.341 | 268 |
Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Orlando against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.