Entry № 7843 · Italian origin

Ornella Ornella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ or-NEL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Flowering ash tree"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Italian)

A name that means "flowering ash tree".

Ornella was coined by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) from ornello, the flowering ash tree.

Ornella Muti (born 1955) is the Italian actress.

Flowering ash tree. D'Annunzio's coinage.

The name in its native script.

Ornella
Transliteration
Ornella
Pronunciation
/ ɔːrˈnɛl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ornella stands.

Ornella does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ornellas before her.

Real people
Ornella Muti
Italian actress.
born 1955
In fiction
Ornella
D'Annunzio's coinage in La figlia di Iorio.
1904 Italian play

Names connected to Ornella.

The number behind Ornella.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ornella reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.