Girl · Italian
Ornella
Say it: or-NEL-lah
Meaning
Coined by Gabriele D'Annunzio for a character in La figlia di Iorio (1904), from Tuscan ornello 'manna ash tree'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 202 babies given this name since 1968
- At its height in 2013, about 1 in 146,000 girls
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Ornella Vanoni, singer
- Ornella Muti, actress
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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