Given name & surname

Orleans

“the golden child”

Orleans is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “the golden child.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

One Latin interpretation is “the golden child.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.

How it developed

From French Orléans, from Latin Aurelianum.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Orleans’s family of names

Orleans has a related form in Orlin. Orleans has a related form in Orlyn. Orleans has a related form in Orlean.

Walk Orleans’s family in the name graph

OrleansOrléansOrlinOrlynOrlineOrleenOrleanOrlinaOrleaneOrlyneOrlinsOlrynsOrleeneOrleens

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Nicknames & forms 12

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Ancient Greek

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Latin

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