Ariana

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Ancient Greek.
• a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of ancient period for a district of wide extent between Central Asia and the Indus River, comprehending the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered entire modern-day Afghanistan, east and southeast of Iran, Tajikistan and northwestern Pakistan

Origin

• Modern simplification of Arianna, Ariane and Arianne, all forms of the Greek name Ariadne ("most holy"; Cretan Greek αρι (ari) "most" and αδνος (adnos) "holy"). There has been some confusion with the similar sounding Adriana and Adrienne.
• By folk etymology also associated with Welsh arian.
• Borrowed from Latin Ariāna, from Ancient Greek Ἀριανή.