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Female name
Oriana is a
given name, primarily of a
female, that is widespread in
Europe. Variants include Orianna, Oriane or Orianne.
Oriana is also a
given name, primarily of a
female, that is widespread in
Samoa meaning 'flower'.
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[
clarification needed].
The
Irish version of this name means ' the golden one' and stems from 'Ór' which is the Irish for gold.
Notable people
Notable people with the name include:
- Nickname for English queen
Elizabeth I; the
Oriana madrigals were written for her.
-
Oriana Wilson (1876-1945),
MBE, British humanitarian and wife of explorer
Edward Adrian Wilson
-
Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006), Italian journalist, author, political
- Oriana Clare Tickell, Dame
Clare Tickell
-
Oriana Panozzo, Australian actress
-
Oriana Scheuss, Swiss Olympic sport shooter
-
Oriana Civile, Sicilian folk singer and ethnomusicologist, exponent of
Sicilian
oral tradition and of
world music interviewer, and World War II partisan
- Oriana Small, birth name of
Ashley Blue, US actress
- Oriana Cottrell (born 1980's) Ceramicist, Jeweler and Flamenco Dancer
-
Oriane Lassus (born 1987), author, cartoonist, illustrator
- Oriana Guerrero (born 1994), Colombian volleyball player
-
Oriana Sabatini, Argentine actress, model and singer
Fictional characters
- Oriana, heiress to the throne of Great Britain and beloved of
Amadis de Gaula, in Oriana by
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- Oriana, fairy and main character in the children's book
A Fada Oriana, by Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- Oriane de Guermantes, Duchesse de Guermantes, character in Marcel Proust's novel
In Search of Lost Time
- Oriana, the princess whom the protagonist of
Felix the Cat: The Movie must save, as well as the name of the land she rules over
- Orianna, the daughter of Talon and Oria in the metal opera
Days of Rising Doom by Aina
- Oureana, Moorish princess who converted to Christianity in
12th-century Portugal
- Oriane, a character in the novel
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
- Orianna, The Lady of Clockwork, a character in the video game
League of Legends
- Oriana, genetic twin of Miranda Lawson in the video game
Mass Effect 2
- Oriana, subject of the poem by the same name by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Orianna Spearling, a character in the novel
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
- Oriana de la Force, a villainous lawyer in the book series
Conspiracy 365 by Gabrielle Lord.
- Orianna, a higher vampire in
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
Ships
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