Arabella
Arabella is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning Yielding to prayer; beautiful.
What Arabella means
Yielding to prayer; beautiful.
Arabella sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Arabella comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Arabella is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Arabella?
Arabella is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Arabella is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Arabella
Arabella spans grace and gentleness and faith, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Arabella
These share Arabella's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Grace — Grace, elegance, divine favor.
- Agatha — Good and honourable.
- Siya — The goddess Sita.
- Rei — Beautiful; spirit.
- Cecilia — Patroness of music.
- Celeste — Heavenly.
- Constance — Steadfast and constant.
- Domenica — Of the Lord; born on Sunday.
- Mirabel — Wondrous; of great beauty.
- Trinity — The holy three.
- Verena — True; honest.
- Verity — Truth.
More Latin names
- April — Opening buds of spring.
- August — Great, venerable, majestic.
- Amadeus — Lover of God.
- Augusta — Great and venerable.
- Adrian — Of the dark sea.
- Augustine — Great and venerable.
- Ace — The number one; unity and excellence.
- Augustus — Great, venerable and majestic.
- Aurelia — The golden one.
- Aurelio — The golden one.