Given name
Arsène
Arsène is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in French and Norman.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In French usage, Arsène developed from Ἀρσένιος.
Arsène’s family of names
In French usage, Arsène shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Årsinne. In French usage, Arsène has a conventional equivalent in the German form Arsen. In French usage, Arsène has a conventional equivalent in the English form Arsenius.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Arsène has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Arsène comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arsène
- Arsène WengerFrench football manager (born 1949)
- Arsène AugusteHaitian footballer (1951–1993)
- Arsène DarmesteterFrench philologist (1846-1888)
- Arsène Heitzauthor of the Flag of Europe (1908-1989)
- Arsène MerschRoad bicycle racer (1913-1980)
- Arsène VermenouzeFrench Occitan poet (1850–1910)
- Arsène Copaassociation football playerborn 1988
- Arsène MillocheauFrench racing cyclist (1867–1948)
- Arsène AlancourtFrench cyclist (1892-1965)
Characters named Arsène: Arsène Lupin (fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc), Lupin III (fictional character created by Monkey Punch).
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