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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
Notice:BABYNAMES is now on-line and writable! Enjoy...
Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

214.0. "Ariana" by MSDOA2::LSMITH () Fri Apr 15 1988 18:19

I have not seen the name "Ariana" in this file.  Pronounced "R-EE-Anna".
Does anyone know where it came from and what it means?  I heard this name and 
thought it was one of the most beautiful names I have ever heard of.

Waiting to hear.

Lorie
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214.1ColumbiaPARITY::DASILVAMon May 23 1988 19:209
    Hi,  When I was in school I sponsored a little girl named Ariana.
         She was from the country of Columbia.  Maybe that's where the
         name came from.
    
    regards,
    
    Liz
    
    
214.2Greek maybe...CSC32::S_WATTUMFri Jul 08 1988 21:266
    Ariana could be of Greek derivation.  When we named our daughter
    Ariadne (which is greek), I recal running across references to
    Ariana being an "alternate" type of name.
    
        --Scott
    
214.3Larissa ArianaEDUHCI::WARRENMon Jul 18 1988 13:313
    I know of someone whose daughter's middle name is Ariana.  Her full
    name is Larissa Ariana Jarzylo!
    
214.4Zodiac explainsVAXRIO::CLARICETue Jul 19 1988 13:425
    I'm from Brazil, and in portuguese Ariana means someone who is aries
    in the zodiac. That is, someone who was borned between march 20 and 
    april 21.
    
    Clarice.
214.5CECV05::GAMAContracting is my lifeMon May 01 1989 17:303
    As far as I know, Ariana was the name of a race. The white and blonde
    people from the north of Europe. Ariana is a Portuguese/Spanish
    spelling to Ariane.
214.6A Pretty NameSHALOT::ANDERSONGive me a U, give me a T...Wed May 03 1989 13:1712
	My book has Ariane, but not Ariana.  Ariane is the French form
	of Ariadne, which is from the Greek.  Ariadne was a daughter of
	Minos who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth.
	I assume Ariana is simply a Latin (Spanish, Italian, etc.)
	form of either Ariane or Ariadne.

	The other etymologies discussed here have some truth in them,
	but probably aren't where the name comes from.  The Northern
	people are the Aryans.  The Zodiac reference is to the signs 
	Aries (people under that sign are called Arians).

		-- Cliff