Entry № 870 · Italian origin

Aria Aria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AR-ee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Air, melody"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "air, melody".

Aria is the Italian word for "air" and, in music, for a solo vocal piece — typically in an opera. The most famous arias are moments where the action stops and a single character pours out their soul: Puccini's "Nessun dorma," Verdi's "La donna è mobile." The word carries that quality of pure singular voice.

Aria has also been adopted independently in Persian and Hebrew traditions, where similar-sounding words exist with their own meanings ("noble" in Persian, "lion of God" in Hebrew as a feminine form of Ariel). Three origins, three meanings, one short name. Aria appeared in the U.S. top 1000 only in 2002 and has rocketed to the top 25.

Air, melody — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Aria
Transliteration
Aria
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.ri.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aria stands.

Aria 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.

Arias before her.

Real people
Aria Mia Loberti
American actress, known for the Netflix series All the Light We Cannot See.
born 1994
In fiction
Arya Stark
Sword-fighting heroine of Game of Thrones and George R.R. Martin's novels.
1996–
Aria Montgomery
Central character in Pretty Little Liars.
ABC Family, 2010–2017

Names connected to Aria.

The number behind Aria.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aria reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.