Names

Means “noble maiden” in the fictional language Sindarin. In The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Arwen was the daughter of Elrond and the lover of Aragorn.

Old Welsh name of unknown meaning.

Possibly means “mountain goats” in Arabic. This name was borne by some relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. It was also the name of a 12th-century queen of Yemen.

Means “value, worth” in Finnish and Estonian.

Latvian form of Arvid.

From the Old Norse name Arnviðr, derived from the elements arn “eagle” and viðr “tree”.

Meaning unknown, possibly a variant of Arwel.

Variant of Arvid.

Means “beautiful soul” in Kazakh.

From Sanskrit अरुष (arusha) meaning “reddish, dawn”, a word used in the Rigveda to describe the red horses of Agni. This name also appears in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata belonging to a daughter of Manu and the wife of Chyavana, though in this case it might derive from Sanskrit आरुषी (arushi) meaning “hitting, killing”.