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Origin: Greek Ωριων
Meaning: “boundary; limit.”
Eng (o-RIE-ən)
The name is believed to be derived from the Greek, ‘οριον (horion) meaning, “boundary; limit.” In Greek mythology, it was borne by a great huntsman and a favorite companion of Artemis. Zeus turned him into a constellation.
Currently, Orion was the 466th most popular male name in the United States, (2010). Other forms of the name include:
- Orioni ორიონი (Albanian/Georgian)
- Orió (Catalan)
- Orion Ωρίων (English/Greek/Polish)
- Órión (Hungarian)
- Orione (Italian)
- Orions (Latvian)
- Orionas (Lithuanian)
- Órion (Portuguese)
- Orionte (Portuguese)
- Orión (Spanish)
The name was borne by an early Christian Greek martyr and in recent history it was borne by Orion Clemens (1825-1897), the first and only Secretary of Nevada Territory and the brother of Mark Twain.
The designated name-day is May 16 (Poland).
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In the English-speaking world, the earliest usage of the name seems to trace back to Asia Frigga Booth Clarke (1835-1888), the sister to the infamous presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Her father, Junius Brutus Booth, a famous actor in his time, chose the name as he believed the Garden of Eden was located in the continent of Asia. Asia Clarke is most noted for her memoires entitled John Wilkes Booth: a sister’s memoir.
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Charles Dickens used the name for an antagonist in his 1850 novel David Copperfield. Due to the character’s reputation, the term Uriah Heep is often used to describe a “yes man.”