Olando
Masculine
Olando is a late-twentieth-century American name that sounds like Orlando with its r folded away. Orlando carries one of the most delightful episodes in Renaissance poetry: a knight flying to the moon on a winged horse to fetch back the hero's lost mind.
How old is the name Olando?
Olando first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Olando alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 600 people named Olando are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Olando most popular?
Olando peaked in 1975, reaching #2001 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Olando
In Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Orlando goes mad for love of Angelica, and his friend Astolfo rides the winged hippogriff up to the moon, where everything lost on earth is kept; there he finds Orlando's wits in a stoppered flask and brings them home for the hero to sniff back up. Olando keeps the music of that name, with one sound softened. It is a name that sounds warm and round.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Olando may be Orlando without its r, or a build of its own, and nothing records which.
Pronouncing Olando
oh-LAN-doh
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Olando
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1956
- Most boys named
- 197923 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2001reached in 1975
- Change vs 2020
- +20.0%6 in 2021, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Olandos among us
people named Olando are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Olando sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Close to Orlando, a name everyone knows.
- Comes with Lando as a ready short form.
- Rare, so an Olando is unlikely to meet another.
- People will hear Orlando and write it that way.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
- Some will read it as a spelling slip.
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Frequently asked
- How many Olandos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Olando are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Olando in 2025?
- Olando is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Olando with classmates?
- Olando will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More O names
The most-given names starting with O, all years combined.
Oliver#3 · Owen#31 · Oscar#223 · Omar#260 · Otis#652 · Orlando#871 · Otto#277 · Orville#6143
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