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Ornella

#14,483 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Italian origin

Ornella has been given to 240 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #14,483 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Ornella, 2025

1 in 553,000

Ornella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ornella: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Italian origin

Italian

What Ornella means

Ornella is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ornella is used in French. Its origins include Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 240 girls were recorded with the name Ornella between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2013; its best national rank was #7,844 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,862 in 2020 to #14,483 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,610 in 2015 to #14,483 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Ornella?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,483
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ornella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ornella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ornellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ornella was born before 2010 — so the typical Ornella is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
240
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2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Ornella rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,370
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,621
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,873
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2013 (12)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,844
1968

Spellings of Ornella

Ornella is not the most common spelling — Ariella is, with 27.1% against Ornella's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ornella is used

Across 1910–2025, Ornella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,077,877 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ornella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ornella around the world

Where Ornella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1952–2025
    #653
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1956–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ornella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,483
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,621
Best rank ever
#7,844
1968
Peak year
2013
12 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
240
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Ornella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ornella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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