Arabella

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

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) Related to the place name Arabia ^[2]

Related Names

Arabel	♀
Arabela	♀
Arabell	♀
Arabella	♀
Arabelle	♀

Further Information

For short forms see Bella

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		12	22	0	0
Denmark[4]		8	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		0	8	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	26	n.a	4
#: 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.

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi