Oriana

Oriana is a given name, primarily of a female, that is widespread in Europe. Variants include Orianna, Oriane or Orianne.

Sometimes Orian, Oreste or Dorian may be a male given name or a family name, as Orians, Oriani, or Doria.

Possible roots of the name

There is the Latin meaning of rising (as in sunrise; see a similar word root in Orient).

Things get even more complicated as in the languages of the Iberian peninsula, namely Spanish and Portuguese, there is the medieval Oroana or Ouroana, from Oro or Ouro meaning Gold, whose origin is the Latin Aurum, and whose root, Aur, may be related to Ori.

Notable people

Notable people with the name include:

• Nickname for English queen Elizabeth I; the Oriana madrigals were written for her.
• Oriana Civile (born 1980), Sicilian folk singer and ethnomusicologist, exponent of Sicilian oral tradition and of world music
• Oriana Fallaci (1929 – 2006), Italian journalist, author, political interviewer, and World War II partisan
• Oriana Guerrero (born 1994), Colombian volleyball player
• Oriana Panozzo, Australian actress
• Oriana Scheuss (born 1972), Swiss Olympic sport shooter
• Oriana Small (born 1981), birth name of Ashley Blue, US actress
• Oriana Clare Tickell, Dame Clare Tickell