Gender Feminine
Usage Obscure
Meaning & History
Derived from a Russian surname, the feminine form of the surname Arkadin, which is probably derived from the given name Arkadiy. A fictional bearer of the surname is Irina Arkadina from Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull (1896). The American actress Uma Thurman used it for her daughter, Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson, born in July 2012.