Comments for the name Orlando

Famous bearer: Actor Orlando Bloom (Legolas, "The Lord of the Rings").

The actor Orlando Bloom was named for the great English composer Orlando Gibbons. It is the name of a famous Italian Renaissance epic poem called "Orlando Furioso" on which Handel wrote an opera that is still in the repertoire.

The main character in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando bears this name. Orlando is a boy in the beginning of the book, but changes his gender a few times during his life, going as Lady Orlando whenever s/he decides to be a woman.

Nickname for this name can possibly be Orli.

Other famous bearers of this name are Orlando Brown (Eddie from That's So Raven) and Orlando Jones (The Time Machine).

I was told this name can also be Cuban. It is a city in Florida, yes, because the Spanish (Ponce de Leon) first found Florida, with means flower in Spanish, and Orlando is also a Spanish name which they named a city in Florida after.

I think Orlando is a very fun name! I can a imagine a really handsome, Hawaian guy named Orlando! Also, Orlando Brown plays the funny Eddy in That's So Raven! Funny!

Two famous bearers are Major League Baseball players Orlando Palmero and Orlando Cabrera.

Love the name! Shakespeare used it! It's very cool and sounds amazing.

A really cool name. Orlando Bloom *sigh* makes it a whole lot better.

A famous bearer on That's so Raven is Eddie Thomas, but his real name is Orlando Brown!

Orlando is one of my top favorite boy's names. When I think about this name I envision a gracious young man with strong family values. Someone who is also is very charming and enthusiastic. A lovely name in general. If I had any distaste for this name in the least is that it's the name of a city in Florida. I live in Florida so it's a little strange. Nevertheless, I would still use this name despite that. Oh, and yes Orlando Bloom definitely makes this name 100 times cooler. =)

I really love the name Orlando; it's right on the top of my list of favorite names. And the fact that Orlando Bloom has this name makes it that much better.

Love this name, sounds incredibly dashing, but it would be annoying if people kept asking if you named your son after Orlando Bloom.

This is also the last name of the Prime Minister of Italy during World War I, Vittorio Orlando. He was also one of the "Big Four" (along with Woodrow Wilson for the US, David Lloyd George for Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau for France).

There is a character in the graphic novel 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' named Orlando. S/he (Orlando is a transsexual) is a mixture of Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Orlando the knight of Charlemagne.

I don't like place names on people. Everyone will associate the name with the place, and Orlando is known for its bad taste and hideous singers, right? Besides, the nickname Orly is hideous.

I find it intresting that Orlando means "famous land" and Orlando is a famous city.

The prefix *or-* means golden, so combined with -lando, it could mean "of the golden land.

Also used in Spanish/Castilian. It's pronounced Ohr-lahn-doh.

Orlando reminds me of a pirate. (Of course, Orlando Bloom playing Will Turner might have something to do with it).

I know of a few kids with this name, mostly of Puerto Rican decent.

I just recently started to love this name (Although I do fancy Orlando Bloom). It's very romantic sounding which I love for boy's names. The fact Shakespeare used the name also makes me like it more.

The Italian pronunciation is awrr-LAHN-daw.

Orlando Brown (born 1987 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor and musician.

This name reminds me of SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. I've wanted to go there since I was four, and haven't. So it seems an oceanic name to me even though it's the word "land" between two O's.

The name Orlando sorta relaxes me. (It also makes me think of Legolas from The Lord of the Rings)