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). The OMB bases its names for metropolitan areas on their dominant cities. Since the OMB periodically adjusts the criteria it uses to name metropolitan areas, and since Orange County has more than one dominant city, a different name has been issued by the OMB every ten years. Regardless of the OMB-assigned name, locals generally refer to the area as "Orange County."

• 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

Orange County, California