Orla
Fewer than two dozen women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. The Slavic root means "golden princess".
Orla Pronunciation
Orla is pronounced OR-lah (/ˈɔrla/).
What Orla means
Where Orla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Orla grows from a Slavic root, and the meaning handed down with it is golden princess, złota księżniczka in Polish. A Polish ear tends to find the eagle first. The word orzeł means eagle, and orli describes its look, as in orli nos, the aquiline nose. The name stands one step from the bird on Poland's coat of arms.
The golden princess reading was attached to the name later, more a gloss than a literal root. There is also an Orla on the map, a village and gmina in Bielsk County, Podlaskie, near the Belarusian border. So the four letters name a place as well as a person.
Orla is short. On a class register it reads clean, and no diminutive waits to shorten it further. Say the meaning plainly and you land on złota księżniczka, a golden princess with an eagle behind the sound.
How many people are named Orla
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Orla. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10030 among female names.
Orla as a middle name
Orla is a first name for 20 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1632nd, between Odeta (20) and Partycja (20).
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#1630 Nikole20
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#1631 Odeta20
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#1632 Orla20
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#1633 Partycja20
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#1634 Paulette20