"Technically, it's my little-girl name. It’s technically little Ari’s name. I just feel like this experience was such a homecoming for me. I feel like I came home to myself in a lot of ways through what I learned from Glinda, from Elphaba. That was my name when I went to see the show when I was 10 years old, and it felt like a really lovely way of honoring that. It felt really full-circle, and it just felt like something I wanted to do," Ariana Grande explains in a PEOPLE article.
I'll be honest, I thought 📛Grande was Ariana's stage name. 🤦🏾♀️ But Grande is the 🎤singer's mother's last name and 📛Butera is her father's.
📛Ariana is of Italian origin meaning 'most holy.' Behind the Name says it a form of the Greek name 📛Ariadne and "this name [Ariana] steadily grew in popularity in America in the last few decades of the 20th century."
Ariana is almost in the top 100 most Popular Baby Names for girls in 2024, it is #103. I didn't realize Ariana was so sought of as a name. 🤔
I'm ambivalent about the name 📛Ariana. 🤷🏾♀️ It is a pretty sounding name (Nameberry describes Ariana as "smooth and attractive") on one hand... but on the other hand, it's not jaw-droppingly beautiful or super unique — nor is it boring. 🥱 Nameberry proclaims 📛Ariana is "on the rise." 📈 I don't doubt that. I'm sure it will make it into the top 100 baby names at some point, especially with Ariana Grande's star rising even more with Wicked. ✨
