Italian Names that Start With O

  1. Oriana
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "dawn"
    • Description:

      Oriana is a dashing medieval name, with a meaning similar to Aurora. At this point, though, Oriana is much more unusual than Aurora and makes a unique choice if you're searching for names that mean new beginnings or dawn.
  2. Orlando
    • Origin:

      Italian variation of Roland
    • Meaning:

      "famous throughout the land"
    • Description:

      Orlando, the ornate Italianate twist on the dated Roland, with a literary heritage stretching back to Shakespeare and before, has appealing book-ended o's, and is open to combination with almost any last name, a la British actor, Orlando Bloom.
  3. Ornella
    • Origin:

      Italian
    • Meaning:

      "flowering ash tree"
    • Description:

      Like many a popular name, Ornella is a theatrical creation. Italian playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio created this name for his dramatic heroine in the 1904 play La Figlia di Iorio. Ornella is a feminization of the orno or ornello, which is the Italian word for the Fraxinus Ornus, a type of tree which produces such sweet sap that it was compared to biblical manna.
  4. Ottavia
    • Origin:

      Italian, variation of Latin Octavia
    • Meaning:

      "eight"
    • Description:

      Softer and more romantic than Octavia, this is a name once used when it wasn't uncommon for families to have eight children. A possible substitute for the epidemically popular Olivia.
  5. Orsino
    • Origin:

      Italian variation of Orson
    • Meaning:

      "bearlike"
    • Description:

      Orson is being rediscovered and Orsino is every bit as attractive.
  6. Orsa
    • Origin:

      Italian variation of Ursula
    • Meaning:

      "little female bear"
    • Description:

      The advantage of Orsa over the arguably-more-attractive Ursula is that it breaks the tie to the hideous she-witch of The Little Mermaid. Orsa definitely feels more ready for modern life now that brother name Orson is on the rise.
  7. Ortensia
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "of the garden"
    • Description:

      Variant of Hortensia, an unusual floral name and the name of a secondary character in Roald Dahl's Matilda.
  8. Orsola
    • Origin:

      Italian variation of Ursula
    • Meaning:

      "little female bear"
    • Description:

      Orsola is chic in Italy in a way that Ursula is not in the U.S. And English speakers will inevitably hear this chic, sleek name as Ursula, condemned to purgatory as the name of the hideous sea-witch who terrorized Disney's Little Mermaid.
  9. Orfeo
    • Origin:

      Italian variation of Orpheus
    • Description:

      See ORPHEUS.
  10. Ottavio
    • Origin:

      Italian, “eighth”
    • Description:

      Spirited Italian form of Octavius
  11. Oratio
    • Otello
      • Orazio
        • Oliviero
          • Ottone
            • Onofredo