Meaning and history
Italian form of Roland, used in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1483) and Ludovico Ariosto’s continuation Orlando Furioso (1532), where Orlando is a knight in Charlemagne’s army fighting the invading Saracens. The name also appears in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (1599) and as the name of a city in Florida.
20062006: 853 births, rank #355
2007: 860 births, rank #367
2008: 697 births, rank #419
2009: 719 births, rank #408
2010: 634 births, rank #432
20112011: 545 births, rank #482
2012: 590 births, rank #460
2013: 471 births, rank #557
2014: 493 births, rank #561
2015: 438 births, rank #613
20162016: 430 births, rank #623
2017: 393 births, rank #654
2018: 379 births, rank #666
2019: 337 births, rank #723
2020: 307 births, rank #772
20212021: 336 births, rank #754
2022: 307 births, rank #811
2023: 329 births, rank #775
2024: 289 births, rank #843
20252025: 275 births, rank #871
Orlando moved from #844 to #873 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1987, with 877 births.