Names

Variant of Arline.

Meaning unknown, possibly from a surname.

Variant of Arline.

Russian form of Archippos.

Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element arn meaning “eagle”.

Means “rock” in Basque.

Alternate transcription of Russian Аркадий (see Arkadiy).

Russian form of Arkadios. This is the name of one of the main characters in Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862).

Polish form of Arkadios.

From an ancient Greek name meaning “of Arcadia”. Arcadia was a region in Greece, its name deriving from ἄρκτος (arktos) meaning “bear”. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint and martyr.