Arabella is from the Latin *orabilis* ("yielding to prayer, entreatable") — also interpreted as the Italian *ara bella* ("beautiful altar"). First used as a feminine given name in 12th-century Scotland and England. **A top-200 US baby name since 2010**. **Arabella Churchill (1648-1730)** — **mistress of King James II of England and ancestor of the Duke of Berwick line; great-great-grandmother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough — making her an ancestor of Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales**. **Arabella Churchill (1949-2007)** — co-founder of the Glastonbury Festival (1971), the largest greenfield music and performing-arts festival in the world; granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill. **Richard Strauss's *Arabella* (1933)** — German romantic comic opera with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal; among Strauss's most-performed late operas. **Arabella Kushner (born 2011)** — eldest daughter of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner; granddaughter of Donald Trump. **Arabella Weir** — Scottish actress and comedian. **Arabella in Daphne du Maurier's *My Cousin Rachel* (1951)**. **Arctic Monkeys' "Arabella" (2013)** — track from their *AM* album, certified Platinum in the UK. **Henry Fielding's *The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling* (1749)** features Mrs. Western's niece Arabella Hunt.
Featured throughout English aristocratic naming traditions.
Arabella reduces to six — the number of Glastonbury.