Orlando

Meaning: (Famous Country, Renowned Land, Fame of the Land. City in Florida. Variant of Roland. Mostly literary and late 19th-century use. Literary: Virginia Woolf wrote a gender-bending fantasy novel "Orlando". Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It' (1599) has an Orlando (the lead).)

Origin: (Spanish, Italian)

Pronunciation: (or-LAHN-doh, ohr-LAN-doh)

Gender: Male

I was watching a movie the other day, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and there was a guy on there named Orlando who was played by actor Shamar Moore (Criminal Minds). He is a very handsome black man. Any way I got to thinking about real life Orlando's (notably Orlando Bloom) and fictional ones. It seems that a lot of them are hot. I'm not saying that the name made them that way. I am more saying the men made the name Orlando to be associated with handsome men. Though today many will think of Orlando, Florida. Either way I like the meaning and look of this name.