Given name & surname
Are
“eagle”
Are is used as a given name and a surname. One Old Norse interpretation is “eagle.”
Original Old NorseAri
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Old Norse interpretation is “eagle.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
In Norwegian usage, Are developed from Ari.
Are’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Are developed from the Old Norse form Ari. In Finnish usage, Are has a related form in AARRE. In Norwegian usage, Are shares a linguistic root with the Icelandic form Ari.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Are has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Are comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ariroot · Old Norse, Icelandic
- Arieequivalent
- Arjanequivalent
- Araequivalent
- Aryequivalent
- Arjenequivalent
- Adequivalent
- Arsiequivalent
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People named Are
- Are StrandliNorwegian rowerborn 1988
- Are NakkimNorwegian athleteborn 1964
- Are KalvøNorwegian writer and satiristborn 1969
- Are NæssNorwegian politician1942–2024
- Are VesterlidNorwegian architect and professor1921–2013
- Are HansenNorwegian sport shooterborn 1982
- Are HelsethNorwegian politicianborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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