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Gender-neutral names

Explore gender-neutral names and read the language and usage context behind each one.

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Aria.

  1. Aria

    Gender-neutral

    Which Aria story feels yours?. Aria has separate English and Persian histories. You might be drawn to its Italian musical sense or to a Persian family connection.

    The musical Aria. The modern English feminine name comes from Italian aria: “air”, and also a musical composition.

    The Italian word and its musical sense belong to the English name's history; they are not the meaning of Persian Aria.

    The Persian history. Persian Aria is a masculine given name, written آریا. Its history connects to arya, an ancient term Iranian peoples used for themselves.

    The ancient Iranian element is a historical self-designation, not a modern character trait.

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