Entry № 7829 · Latin origin

Oriana Oriana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ or-ee-AH-nuh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Golden / dawn (Oriana Fallaci, journalist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "golden / dawn (oriana fallaci, journalist)".

Oriana is from the Latin aurum (gold) — golden or dawn.

Golden / dawn.

The name in its native script.

Oriana
Transliteration
Oriana
Pronunciation
/ ˌɔːr.iˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oriana stands.

Oriana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Orianas before her.

Real people
Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist.
1929 – 2006
In fiction
Oriana
Heroine of Amadís de Gaula.
15th c.

Names connected to Oriana.

The number behind Oriana.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oriana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.