Arne
Arne is a boy name of Norse origin, meaning Eagle.
What Arne means
Eagle.
Arne is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Arne comes from
Old Norse names are usually compounds drawn from the natural world, from battle, or from the gods, carried across northern Europe by Scandinavian settlement.
Arne is recorded as Norse in origin. Browse other Norse names.
How popular is Arne?
Arne sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Arne
Two ideas meet in Arne: the natural world and Sky. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Arne
These share Arne's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Bayu — Wind.
- Keanu — The cool mountain breeze.
- Zephyr — The west wind.
- Tuuli — Wind.
- Ralph — Wolf counsel; wise wolf.
- Thor — Thunder; god of thunder.
- Ingrid — Beautiful, beloved (of the god Ing).
- Embla — Elm; the first woman.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.