Arabella
Barely present in Poland: about 53 women carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Latin name meaning "yielding to prayer", and given now only in the odd year to a handful of girls.
Arabella Pronunciation
Arabella is pronounced ah-rah-BEL-lah (/araˈbɛlla/).
What Arabella means
Where Arabella comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arabella comes from Latin. Its oldest reading points to orabilis, yielding to prayer, built from the verb orare, to pray. English scribes settled the name in Britain by the medieval period, and it kept that devotional sense.
A second Latin thread runs through it. Some tie Arabella to amabilis, lovable, the root behind the older names Amabel and Annabella, and the two senses have shadowed each other ever since.
Arbella Stuart, born 1575, wore the older spelling. She was an English noblewoman with a claim to the throne, watched closely by King James I, and she died imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1615. On a Polish name-day list today, Arabella sits easily beside Izabela. The Polish reading, godna uwielbienia, worthy of adoration, leans on that second root, amabilis.
When Arabella celebrates name day
Arabella appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 17 November.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Arabella
1 in 425355 women in Poland is named Arabella. 53 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5124 among female names.
Arabella's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Arabella as a middle name
Arabella is a first name for 53 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1965th, between Andrzejka (14) and Ariane (14).
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#1963 Anabela14
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#1964 Andrzejka14
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#1965 Arabella14
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#1966 Ariane14
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#1967 Asenata14