Orlando Name Meaning & Origin
Orlando
Pronunciation: ohr-LAN-doh (key)
Origin of the name Orlando:
Latinate cognate of Roland, which is from the Old High German Hruodland, a compound name composed of the elements hruod (fame) and land (land): hence, "fame of the land."
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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Orlando is a major city in Florida and the home of Disney World.
Orlando and Rolando are anagrams of each other; they contain the same letters.
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orly, nando and lando and eventually you will be called florida, magic, lando lakes or calrisse
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Orlando Bloom, British actor
Orlando Brown, American actor
Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian.
Orlando "Tubby" Smith, American college basketball coach.
Orlando Hernández, Cuban professional baseball pitcher.
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Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It' has an Orlando (the lead)
Orlando, a novel by Virginia Woolf.
Orlando, a film based on Virginia Woolf's novel
Orlando, first name of the main character of Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem 'Orlando Furioso'
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