Entry № 877 · Italian origin

Arianna Arianna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ar-ee-AHN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Most holy (Arianna Huffington, founder of HuffPost)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "most holy (arianna huffington, founder of huffpost)".

Arianna is the Italian form of Ariadne — from the Greek Ari- ("most") + agnē ("holy, pure") — the Cretan princess of classical mythology. Arianna Grande is Ariana Grande (different spelling). Arianna Sacks-Rosenberg — American politician. Arianna also appears as the title character in Monteverdi's opera L'Arianna (1608) — among the very earliest operas.

Most holy (Arianna Huffington, founder of HuffPost) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Arianna
Transliteration
Arianna
Pronunciation
/ ˌær.iˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arianna stands.

Arianna 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.

Ariannas before her.

Real people
Arianna Huffington
Greek-American HuffPost founder.
born 1950
Arianna Fontana
Italian Olympic short-track skater.
born 1990
In fiction
Arianna
Monteverdi's L'Arianna.
1608

Names connected to Arianna.

The number behind Arianna.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arianna reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.