Given name & surname
Aranka
“the golden child”
Aranka is used as a given name and a surname. One Hungarian interpretation is “the golden child.”
Original HungarianAurélia
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hungarian interpretation is “the golden child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hungarian.
How it developed
Aranka is an affectionate form of Hungarian.
Aranka’s family of names
Aranka is an affectionate form of Hungarian. In Hungarian usage, Aranka has a conventional equivalent in the English form Aurelia. In Hungarian usage, Aranka has a conventional equivalent in the French form Aurélie.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Aranka
- Aranka BinderSerbian sports shooterborn 1966
- Aranka FodorHungarian opera singer1883–1931
- Aranka GoijertDutch politician (1941–2022)
- Aranka Munkviennese art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1862–1941)
- Aranka Böhm(1893–1944) physician, psychoanalist, Holocaust victim
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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