Given name
Orestes
Orestes is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Orestes is associated with the son of Agamemnon.
Orestes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 343
- 343 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,612 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Orestes’s family of names
Orestes has a related form in Oreste. In English usage, Orestes has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Орест.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Orestes
- Orestes of Macedonking of Macedonia from 400/399 to 398/397 BC410 BC–395 BC
- Orestes Kindelánbaseball playerborn 1964
- Orestes MatacenaCuban film actor, writer, producer, and directorborn 1941
- Orestes Rodríguez VargasPeruvian-Spanish chess player (1943–2024)
- Orestes QuintanaSpanish rower (1880-1909)
- Orestes BrownsonAmerican activist (1803–1876)
- OrestesBrazilian footballerborn 1981
- Orestes QuérciaBrazilian politician (1938-2010)
- Orestes CavigliaArgentine actor (1893-1971)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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