Entry № 848 · English origin

Arden Arden — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AR-den /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Eager / great forest (Shakespeare's Forest of Arden + Elizabeth Arden)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "eager / great forest (shakespeare's forest of arden + elizabeth arden)".

Arden is from the Old English ærn (great forest) — and the Latin arduus (eager, ardent). 1599); one of the most-recognizable Shakespearean pastoral settings; the play's exiled Duke Senior establishes his rustic court in the forest where the play's romance unfolds; Rosalind and Orlando are among Shakespeare's most-celebrated lovers. Arden Myrin — American comedian.

Eager / great forest.

The name in its native script.

Arden
Transliteration
Arden
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːr.dən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arden stands.

Arden does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ardens before her.

Real people
Elizabeth Arden
Canadian-American cosmetics founder.
1881 – 1966
Arden Cho
American actress.
born 1985
In fiction
Forest of Arden
Shakespeare's As You Like It.
c. 1599

Names connected to Arden.

The number behind Arden.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arden reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.