Comments for the name Orson

The award-winning author Orson Scott Card also bears this name.

I think Orson is an okay name, interestingly it is the only name I have come across on this site that is rated 100% masculine.

Somehow I find this name really amusing. I'd probably laugh out loud if I heard someone shout to their son: ''Orson! It's time to go!'' or whatever. It sounds so old-fashioned and kind of old-school-geeky, if you get my drift.

Orson Bean is an American actor whose given name was Dallas Frederick Burroughs. He played Loren Bray on the tv show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. He was blacklisted in the 1950s and was the second cousin of President Calvin Coolidge.

Not the given name, but George Orson Welles, an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio, was best known as Orson Welles.