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I just asked about this name the not a week or two ago. It is very princessy if that's what you're going for; I kind of had a moment of whimsy. I personally don't think I'd use it, but I like it enough to see someone else use it.

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Well. Ori is a Hebrew boy's name, Anna is a Hebrew girl's name... Combining them would still have a Hebrew meaning, wouldn't it?

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Oriana Elise
Oriana Jade
Oriana Katherine
Oriana Zabel
Oriana Joelle
Oriana Justine
Oriana Truth
Oriana Aveline
Oriana Grace
Oriana Welcome
Oriana Harper
Oriana Dee
Oriana Kolaiah (Kolaiah is a biblical name, means Voice of Yahweh. It's on a list of biblical names on wikipedia)
Oriana Eve
Oriana Katrina

not a fan. there are many lovely hebrew names, my favorites are Aviva and Zipporah, but I much prefer Ariana over Oriana. Ariana is also very common so people will always think she was Ariana.

Eliana is an "invented" Hebrew name with El as the first element rather than Or, so by a stretch Oriana could be too. (You might like to test things on Facebook, by seeing how many Israeli Orianas, if any, you can find. I did the same thing last week, to confirm that in similar fashion Elinor - in the sense "God is light" rather than a form of Eleanor - is also a "new" Hebrew name, which pleased me. Sophia, though not with the Greek "wisdom" meanning, is as well - Tsofiya, "guardian, she who watches"! )
If you want a Hebrew name to rival Olivia how about Ophira (Ofira)?
I have been loving Ophira and Oriana recently.
Oriana Aviva
Oriana Carmela
Oriana Eliora
Oriana Elizabeth
Oriana Miriam
Oriana Yasmin
Oriana Ziva
Incidentally, another Hebrew name with an identical name deriving from another culture is Levana (from "white", used as a poetic form of "moon" in rabbinic literature) and Levana, Roman goddess of childbirth!

This message was edited 11/23/2008, 1:46 AM

I like Oriana but I am not sure it's a Hebrew name, the only Orianas I know of have all been Italian and it sounds like a Latin name.