Ariel
\a.ʁjɛl\♂French boy's name
A French boy's name of Latin origin, first recorded around 1852.
At a glance
| Gender | Masculine |
|---|---|
| Origin | Latin |
| First recorded | 1852 |
| Pronunciation | \a.ʁjɛl\ |
Origin and meaning
From Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל (ari'él, a compound of אֲרִי (arí, “lion”) + אֵל (él, “God”), literally “lion of God”). * (moon of Uranus): All of Uranus’s moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, though it is uncertain if Herschel devised the names, or if Lassell did so and then sought Herschel’s permission. Ariel is the name of the leading sylph in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and also the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Where it is mostly given
- United States
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Israel
- France
Source: Wiktionnaire (CC BY-SA 4.0). Recording: Mecanautes (France), Lingua Libre / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).