Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA is the metropolitan designation given to the Orange County Area by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Due to the OMB's adjusting of the criteria used for naming metropolitan areas and the fact that Orange County has more than one dominant city, it results in a new name being issued by the OMB every ten years. Regardless of the OMB-assigned name, People who live in Orange County sometimes refer to the area as "Orange County" or "The OC."

• Metropolitan Area names formerly assigned to Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA:
  • 1990s - Orange County, CA Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area
  • 1980s - Anaheim-Santa Ana, CA Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area
  • 1970s - Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area
  • 1960s - Santa Ana-Anaheim-Garden Grove, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area

See also

• Orange County, California, for extensive information on the Orange County Area
• United States metropolitan areas
• Santa Ana, California
• Anaheim, California
• Irvine, California
  • Costa Mesa, California
  • Newport Beach, California