Boy · Latin, through Catalan
Oriol
Say it: oo-ree-OL
Meaning
Catalan oriol 'golden oriole' (from Latin aureolus 'golden'); used as a given name in honour of Saint Josep Oriol, a 17th-century Barcelona priest whose surname it was.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
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