Entry № 823 · Latin origin

Arabella Arabella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ar-ah-BELL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Yielding to prayer / beautiful altar (Arabella Churchill + Strauss opera)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "yielding to prayer / beautiful altar (arabella churchill + strauss opera)".

Arabella is from the Latin orabilis ("yielding to prayer, entreatable") — also interpreted as the Italian ara bella ("beautiful altar"). A top-200 US baby name since 2010. Arabella Weir — Scottish actress and comedian. Western's niece Arabella Hunt.

Yielding to prayer / beautiful altar (Arabella Churchill + Strauss opera) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Arabella
Transliteration
Arabella
Pronunciation
/ ˌær.əˈbɛl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arabella stands.

Arabella does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Arabellas before her.

Real people
Arabella Churchill (Glastonbury)
Glastonbury co-founder.
1949 – 2007
Arabella Churchill (Stuart-era)
Mistress of James II.
1648 – 1730
Arabella Weir
Scottish comedian.
born 1957
In fiction
Arabella
Strauss's Arabella.
1933

Names connected to Arabella.

The number behind Arabella.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arabella reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.