🔥Oriana

Latin

"dawn"

Oriana Origin and Meaning

The name Oriana is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "dawn".

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.

Strong and evocative, Oriana also has an admirable literary resume. In medieval tales, she was the beloved of the knight Amadis, she appears in at least three seventeenth century plays, and there is an early Tennyson poem called The Ballad of Oriana. Oriana was also sometimes used to refer to Queen Elizabeth I. Oriana Fallaci was a feminist Italian journalist who interviewed many world leaders in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Oriana Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 464 on Nameberry

Oriana Popularity

• 464 Nameberry 2024
• 602 Unique 2023

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Famous People Named Oriana

• Oriana Fallaci Italian journalist
• Oriana Pooles English actress
• Oriana Panozzo Australian actress
• Oriana Civile Italian singer
• Oriana Bandiera Italian economist
• Oriana Scheuss Swiss sport shooter
• (Oriana) Clare Tickell English affordable housing activist
• Oriana Huxley Waller cousin of novelist Aldous Huxley
• Oriana Small birth name of Ashley Blue, American adult film actress and radio personality

Oriana in Pop Culture

• Oriana character in Fletcher's 'The Wild Goose Chase'
• Oriana character in Farquhar's 'The Inconstant'
• Oriana teasing, tormenting, brilliant woman in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'The Woman,hater'
• Princess Oriana character in 'Felix the Cat' (1959)
• Oriana 1861 painting by Pre,Raphaelite artist Frederick Sandys
• Oriana character in Gabriel Lord's '365 Days' book series
• Oriana Lawson minor character in the video games Mass Effect 2 and 3
• "Oriana " 1985 Venezuelan film and its main character
• Oriana character in Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's "A Fada Oriana" (The Fairy Oriana)