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Oriol

“golden, of gold”

masculineLatin script

[oˈɾjol] · Spanish

Origin: Latin
4 language contexts: French Spanish Catalan +1 more
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Oriol

Oriol is a masculine given name documented in French, Spanish, Catalan and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Aureolus. Spanish Wikipedia gives the meaning “golden, of gold”.

Latin origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “golden, of gold”

Inherited from Latin Aureolus/Auriolus, from aureolus (“golden”, adjective).

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (es): Oriol (nombre)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (5)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q11939526
Masculine usage in Catalan · Wiktionary: Oriol
Masculine usage in Spanish · Wiktionary: Oriol
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Oriol
Masculine usage in French · French Wiktionary: Oriol

Explore all 4 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Oriol” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q11939526.

All pronunciation details (9)

[oˈɾjol] — Spanish
/oˈɾjol/ — Spanish
[oɾiˈol] — Spanish
[o.ɾiˈɔl] — Catalan (Balearic, Northwestern, Valencia)
[u.ɾiˈo̞l] — Catalan (Northern)
[u.ɾiˈɔl] — Catalan (Central)
[…] — Catalan
/\uˈɾjɔl\/ — Catalan
/\oˈɾjɔl\/ — Catalan

02 / Across borders

Where Oriol is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

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3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

France

Statistics + language records

France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2022: 5 boys (rank 6196). Documented as a given name in French.

Explore France

4 of 9 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Spain

2002–2024 Spelling: ORIOL

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2013: 446; births; Rank #94
Peak year: 2006; 636 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística · Spain — national top 100 newborn names per sex, 2002–2024

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Show the data table

ORIOL in Spain, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per million	Status
2002	498	84	2,306	observed
2003	536	81	2,355	observed
2004	558	81	2,376	observed
2005	553	80	2,302	observed
2006	636	76	2,552	observed
2007	593	78	2,336	observed
2008	587	81	2,187	observed
2009	565	84	2,207	observed
2010	520	88	2,074	observed
2011	576	83	2,368	observed
2012	552	81	2,355	observed
2013	446	94	2,036	observed
2014	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “ORIOL” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million use the matching published total for this region, recorded category and year; years without a compatible denominator remain gaps.

Universe: Names of newborns from INE birth statistics, national TOTAL sheet only. Regional tables are not added to national counts.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only the published top 100 names per sex and year are covered; names outside the lists remain unknown.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Released 2025-11-19 · Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Oriol Romeu
born 1991
Spanish association football player
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Junqueras
born 1969
Spanish politician and historian (born 1969)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Riera
born 1986
Spanish footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Busquets
born 1999
Spanish association football player
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Paulo
born 1975
Catalan film director and writer
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Oriol with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q11939526CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
German Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (es): Oriol (nombre)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Spain — national top 100 newborn names per sex, 2002–2024
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Oriol

Oriol is a masculine given name documented in French, Spanish, Catalan and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Aureolus. Spanish Wikipedia gives the meaning “golden, of gold”.

Latin origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “golden, of gold”

Inherited from Latin Aureolus/Auriolus, from aureolus (“golden”, adjective).

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (es): Oriol (nombre)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (5)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q11939526
Masculine usage in Catalan · Wiktionary: Oriol
Masculine usage in Spanish · Wiktionary: Oriol
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Oriol
Masculine usage in French · French Wiktionary: Oriol

Explore all 4 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Oriol” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q11939526.

All pronunciation details (9)

[oˈɾjol] — Spanish
/oˈɾjol/ — Spanish
[oɾiˈol] — Spanish
[o.ɾiˈɔl] — Catalan (Balearic, Northwestern, Valencia)
[u.ɾiˈo̞l] — Catalan (Northern)
[u.ɾiˈɔl] — Catalan (Central)
[…] — Catalan
/\uˈɾjɔl\/ — Catalan
/\oˈɾjɔl\/ — Catalan

Where Oriol is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Oriol’s connections around the world.

3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

France

Statistics + language records

France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2022: 5 boys (rank 6196). Documented as a given name in French.

Explore France

4 of 9 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Spain

2002–2024 Spelling: ORIOL

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2013: 446; births; Rank #94
Peak year: 2006; 636 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística · Spain — national top 100 newborn names per sex, 2002–2024

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Show the data table

ORIOL in Spain, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per million	Status
2002	498	84	2,306	observed
2003	536	81	2,355	observed
2004	558	81	2,376	observed
2005	553	80	2,302	observed
2006	636	76	2,552	observed
2007	593	78	2,336	observed
2008	587	81	2,187	observed
2009	565	84	2,207	observed
2010	520	88	2,074	observed
2011	576	83	2,368	observed
2012	552	81	2,355	observed
2013	446	94	2,036	observed
2014	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million use the matching published total for this region, recorded category and year; years without a compatible denominator remain gaps.

Universe: Names of newborns from INE birth statistics, national TOTAL sheet only. Regional tables are not added to national counts.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only the published top 100 names per sex and year are covered; names outside the lists remain unknown.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Released 2025-11-19 · Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Oriol Romeu
born 1991
Spanish association football player
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Junqueras
born 1969
Spanish politician and historian (born 1969)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Riera
born 1986
Spanish footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Busquets
born 1999
Spanish association football player
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Oriol Paulo
born 1975
Catalan film director and writer
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q11939526CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
German Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: OriolCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (es): Oriol (nombre)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Spain — national top 100 newborn names per sex, 2002–2024
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Oriol

Latin origin

Where Oriol is used

Across borders

France

Popularity over time

Spain

History

Notable bearers

Oriol Romeu

Oriol Junqueras

Oriol Riera

Oriol Busquets

Oriol Paulo

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Oriol

Latin origin

Where Oriol is used

Across borders

France

Popularity over time

Spain

History

Notable bearers

Oriol Romeu

Oriol Junqueras

Oriol Riera

Oriol Busquets

Oriol Paulo

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page