Names

Possibly related to the name of the Armenian god Aramazd or the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda. In pre-Christian Georgian mythology Armazi was the supreme god.

Means “beloved” in Finnish (an archaic poetic word).

Icelandic form of Herman.

Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Herman.

French form of Herman.

Variant of Armen.

Means “wish, hope” in Persian.

Medieval Italian name, recorded in Latin as Arlotus. It is possibly from Old French herlot meaning “vagabond, tramp”.

Meaning uncertain. It was perhaps inspired by the fictional place name Arlo Hill from the poem The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser. Spenser probably got Arlo by altering the real Irish place name Aherlow, which is Gaelic meaning “between two highlands”.

Meaning unknown, possibly invented by Michael William Balfe for the main character in his opera The Bohemian Girl (1843).