Arlena
Meaning of Arlena
Pronounced ar-LEE-nuh, Arlena steps into the baby-name bazaar like a fragrant jasmine bloom at dawn, its syllables gliding off the tongue as smoothly as monsoon rain on palace rooftops. Though its roots remain softly veiled—winking at Irish Gaelic’s “pledge of devotion” in its Arlene cousin and nodding to the radiant glow of Helena through its Lena kin—Arlena shimmers with its own promise. First spotted twirling onto American birth charts in the 1880s, it danced between the 200s and 800s for decades, and in 2024 thirteen bright-eyed little girls carried it at rank 937. This hidden gem, perfumed with chai-spice warmth and painted in rangoli patterns of possibility, feels like a secret vow wrapped in sunshine, ready to sprinkle every child’s story with playful magic and steadfast grace.
Pronunciation
- Pronunced as ar-LEE-nuh (/ɑrˈliːnə/)
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