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According to the Greek version of the Wikipedia article dedicated to Orianthi Panagaris (b. 1985), her name is spelled as Οριάνθη in modern Greek:

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- https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B8%CE%B7 (in Greek)

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I don't know if her name already existed in the time of the ancient Greeks, but if it did, then the proper transcription of her name from the ancient Greek alphabet to the modern Latin alphabet is Orianthe. For more information about this, please see:

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#Letters (in English)

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With that said, it appears that few Greek given names start with Ori- or even Ory- and Orei- (which can both easily end up variantly transcribed as Ori-). Examples of such names are Origenios (Ὀριγενίος), Orilaos (Ὀρίλαος), Orybion (Ὠρυβίων) and Oreibasios/Orybasios (Ὀρειβάσιος). I found those names here:

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- Ori-: http://www.trismegistos.org/nam/list_all.php?selection=O&p=7 (in English)
- Ory-: http://www.trismegistos.org/nam/list_all.php?selection=O&p=9 (in English)
- Omicron: http://web.archive.org/web/20120325073647/http://www.etymologica.com:80/page20.htm (in English)
- Omega: http://web.archive.org/web/20120325073727/http://www.etymologica.com:80/page29.htm (in English)

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