Entry № 7849 · Hungarian origin

Orsolya Orsolya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OR-shoh-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Little bear"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "little bear".

Orsolya is the Hungarian form of Ursula, from the Latin for little bear. It carries a small, sturdy strength.

Little bear — a Hungarian name.

The name in its native script.

Orsolya
Transliteration
Orsolya
Pronunciation
/ ˈor.ʃo.jɒ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Orsolya stands.

Orsolya 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.

Orsolyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Orsolya.

The number behind Orsolya.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Orsolya reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.