Aryana

Aryana and Ariana are two completely different things.
Ariana is an Italian name which means a holy female.
Aryana is an Iranian name which means an independent powerful girl...
So pleeeeeeeaaaaassse don't say they're the same.
My name is Aryana and I admire the spelling and the meaning.
My family and I chose to be Aryana (an independent powerful girl) and not a holy one.

"Arya" is a Sanskrit (ancient language from the Indian peninsula) word for "honorable". "Aryan" is a word used to refer to inhabitants of the ancient region called "Aryavart" that spanned between modern day Iran and modern day Northern India. It is only in the 20th century that term "Aryan" took on a more racist slant due to the works of germanic proponents of racial superiority. But inherently, the word are is a descriptor of an entire culture that developed in the period before 500BC, and is often referred to ones who uphold the values of honor and service in society. Aryana, Aryaana, Aryanaa are all female derivates, just the way Aryan is a male derivative for the root word Arya. Other examples include, "Arya Samaj" which was a reform movement in India that promoted the core teachings of the ancient Vedic texts. Unfortunately, in modern day western media, the word and its roots have taken a very negative meaning due to the nazis and neo-nazis.

Actually the word "Aryana" is of Iranic origins. The Iranic people - or how it is pronounced in old Persian : "Arya" - are Persians, saythians, Medians and other lingu-ethnically related people who lived in the region between southern Russia, east European lands to the south of today Iran. The people who lived in ancient Persia called themselves Aryan. The feminine form of the word is "Aryana" or "Ayryana" and refers to the "land" where those Aryans lived. Darius, the great the Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty has described himself in a 2500 year old inscription : "I am a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, from the Aryan nation". In Avesta, the holy book of the ancient Iranian religion, "Zoroasterianism" the land of Persian people and their cousins has been called "Aryana" which means the land of Aryans. Later as old Persian language transformed to middle Persian through a millennium, the word "Aryana" changed first to "Ayrian" and then "Eran" or "Iran".

Aryana originates from the Greek mythology name ARIADNE. Since Sanskrit is believed to be the origin of many European languages including Greek, you can find this name in Sanskrit scripts. In Sanskrit, Aryana means a noble and pure woman.

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The name of a region in greater Persia might have been Ariana, Arianna, Aryanna, or Areyanna. But that is irrelevant of the meaning and origin of this name.

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This name has Sanskrit and Greek origins, and it exudes beauty, feminine energy, and class.

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I see this name among many Albanians, Italians, Germans, Persians, and some Russians.

Aryana was a country between 7000 B.C - 1700 B.C, in central Asia which included entire Afghanistan, eastern Iran, southern Tajikistan and northern India.