Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Like a beautiful melody

Girl name variations

Aari
Aarie
Aariel
Aaries
Aree
Aria
Ariana
Arie
Ariel
Ariealla
Ary

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Lion

Boy name variations

Aristotle
Arelk
Aristito
Aristokles
Aristotelis

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Airey.
  • variant of Avery.
  • Respelling of German Erich or, in some cases, Ihrig.
  • Richard Arey was in Salisbury, MA, in 1646. By 1652 he was in Martha’s Vineyard, where he drowned in 1669.

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