Orlando
11,976 people in the United States were counted with the surname Orlando in the 2020 census, making it the 2,939th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 11,976
- Rank
- 2,939th
- How common
- 1 in 25,000
- Per 100,000
- 4.0
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Orlando described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Orlando
- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860–1952)Italian diplomat
- Silvio Orlando (born 1957)Italian actor
- Tony Orlando (born 1944)American singer
- Andrea Orlando (born 1969)Italian politician and former minister of labour and social policy
- Johnny Orlando (born 2003)Canadian singer-songwriter
- Leoluca Orlando (born 1947)Italian politician
- Alberto Orlando (born 1938)Italian footballer
- Alessandro Orlando (born 1970)Italian footballer
People named Orlando with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Orlando
Also a first name
Orlando has been given to 49,696 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1987. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.