Arabella

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Uncertain origin and meaning. Some theories include:

1) Latinised form of an unknown Scottish name, sometimes written Orabilis due to folk etymology (Latin orabilis = 'invokable') [1] [2]

2) Variant form of Amabilia [1] [3]

3) Related to the place name Arabia [2]

Related Names

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Arabela
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Arabell
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Arabella
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Arabelle
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See also Ara, Bella

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Arabelluson Iceland

Female

Arabelludóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Arabella
Genitive: Arabellas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Arabella
Genitive: Arabellan
Partitive: Arabellaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Arabella
Accusative: Arabellu
Dative: Arabellu
Genitive: Arabellu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Arabella
Genitive: Arabellas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Arabella
Genitive: Arabellas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
98
n.a.
98 0 0
Sweden Sweden[6]
22 40 22 40 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
24
n.a.
24
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
5 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
29
n.a.
29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Arabella.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/