Some names have more than one meaning, the names may look and sound the same but they originated in different parts of the world from different languages, and each meaning is correct
as for
Arianna if you look under the spelling
Ariana you will see
ARIANA Variant of
ARIANE
Now for
Ariane says
ARIANE Variant of
ARIANNE. It has possibly been influenced by the Welsh word arian "silver".
So I would Guess that to a welsh person the meaning
Silver might be concidered the legitamate one, but our experts would know more on the subject
This message was edited 4/16/2006, 1:24 PM