Aria (name)

Aria can be a male or female name depending on the country of origin. In Sanskrit, though often transcribed "Arya", आर्य means "noble" or "honorable". Italian Aria refers means both "air" and the melody, aria. In Albanian, Aria or Ari means "treasure" or "gold" or "of high value" It also means "lion" in Hebrew (ארייה), and "noble" in Persian (آریا). In Iran, the name is used for males. The Persian name is also used in Indian, Hindi, and Malayalam for both boys and girls

Aria

Aria Allegretto by an anonymous artist.
Gender	Male and female
Origin
Word/name	Indian, Italian, Albanian, Persian, Aramaic, Hebrew
Other names
See also	Arya, Ari

The term Arya has been used by the Iranian people, as well as by the rulers and emperors of Iran, from the time of the Avesta. Evidently from the time of the Sassanids (226–651 CE) Iranians have called it Iran, meaning the "Land of the Aryans" and Iranshahr. In Middle Persian sources, the name Arya and Iran is used for the pre-Sassanid Iranian empires as well as the Sassanid empire. As an example, the use of the name "Iran" for Achaemenids in the Middle Persian book of Arda Viraf refers to the invasion of Iran by Alexander the Great in 330 BC. The Proto-Iranian term for Iran is reconstructed as *Aryānām (the genitive plural of the word *Arya); the Avestan equivalent is Airyanem (as in Airyanem Vaejah).