Arie
Hebrew at root, from the word for "lion". It stays rare in Poland: around 170 men carry it, and it has never gone to a girl.
Arie Pronunciation
Arie is pronounced AHR-ye (/ˈarjɛ/).
What Arie means
Where Arie comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arie comes from Hebrew, where the word aryeh means lion. The name hands that animal to whoever wears it. In Polish the meaning is simply lew.
The lion runs deep in Hebrew tradition. Judah, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, was called a lion's whelp in the book of Genesis, and the image stayed close to the name in later Jewish use. A boy called Arie was given the lion as a plain fact of his name.
Short and blunt, the name resists softening. It has two syllables and no settled diminutive in Polish, so a teacher reading a class register says Arie and moves straight on.
The meaning stays legible. Anyone with a little Hebrew hears lion in it at once, and the Polish lew sits right behind. That is the whole of it: three sounds and one animal.
How many people are named Arie
1 in 126309 men in Poland is named Arie. 169 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2459 among male names.
Arie as a middle name
Arie is a first name for 169 men in Poland and a middle name for another 84, a 67/33 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 781st, between Abel (84) and Czeslaw (84).
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#779 Syriusz85
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#780 Abel84
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#781 Arie84
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#782 Czeslaw84
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#783 Frederik84