Oriana
A Greek name that carries the sense of gold and dawn light. Fewer than 700 women in Poland go by it, so meeting one stays memorable, and the handful of newborn girls each year keeps it that way.
Oriana Pronunciation
Oriana is pronounced or-YAH-nah (/ɔrˈjana/).
What Oriana means
Where Oriana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oriana traces back to Greek, and its short meaning holds two bright things: gold and dawn. Spanish and Italian speakers took to the name centuries ago, and it kept both those colours.
Much of its fame comes from a book. In the romance Amadís de Gaula, printed in Spain around 1508 and soon read across Italy, Oriana is the princess whom the knight Amadís loves and serves through every trial. Readers passed the name along with the story, so it settled into both languages as a heroine's name.
Later it belonged to Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist and writer born in 1929, known for interviews that unsettled the powerful. A reader meeting her byline would not have guessed the name once meant gold.
On a Polish class register today Oriana still reads as borrowed, a little southern. The meaning stays plain. Gold and dawn.
How many people are named Oriana
1 in 32298 women in Poland is named Oriana. 698 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1121 among female names.
Oriana's popularity over time
10 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #711 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
Where Oriana is most popular
Oriana is most popular in Pomeranian, 116% above the national average (9 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+110%) and Greater Poland (+98%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian, 22% and 12% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian9 girls born+116%
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West Pomeranian5 girls born+110%
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Greater Poland12 girls born+98%
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Masovian14 girls born+40%
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Silesian7 girls born+9%
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Podlaskie2 girls born+8%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born−10%
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Subcarpathian3 girls born−12%
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Lesser Poland5 girls born−22%
Oriana as a middle name
Oriana is a first name for 698 women in Poland and a middle name for another 149, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 540th, between Rebecca (150) and Karmen (148).
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#538 Lili150
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#539 Rebecca150
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#540 Oriana149
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#541 Karmen148
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#542 Hana147