Aria or Arya is both a male and female given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. It is an Indian

Indian people

Indian people or Indisians constitute the Asian nation and pan-ethnic group native to India, which forms the south of Asia, containing 17.31% of the world's population. The Indian nationality is in essence made up of regional nationalities, reflecting the rich and complex history of India...

 and Persian

Old Persian language

The Old Persian language is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages . Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets, and seals of the Achaemenid era...

 male given name, based on the self designation of the peoples of Ancient India and Ancient Iran who spoke Aryan languages

Aryan languages

Aryan languages may refer to the following:* The Indo-Iranian languages as a whole**Indo-Aryan languages, one of the two main branchs of Indo-Iranian languages**Iranian languages, the other main branch of the Indo-Iranian languages...

. The term was is also used as an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.

As a female given name, Aria means 'lioness' in Hebrew

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

, or 'air' in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

. It also refers to "aria

Aria

An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...

", a self-contained piece for one voice usually, most commonly found in the context of opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

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Famous people

• Aryan Vaid
  Aryan Vaid
  Aryan Vaid is an Indian male model who won the Graviera Mr. India modelling pageant in the year 2000.-Career:Vaid is a qualified chef and a lifestyle columnist with The Hindustan Times. He has been actively involved with theatre and has done a few street plays at the Prithvi theatre in Mumbai...
  
   – Indian model
• Saint Aria – martyred in Ancient Rome
  Ancient Rome
  Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
  
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• Aria Jasuru Hasegawa
  Aria Jasuru Hasegawa
  Aria Jasuru Hasegawa is an Iranian-Japanese football player who is the son of an Iranian father and a Japanese mother.Hasegawa attended Tsurugashima Daiichi Elementary school, Tsurugashima Junior High school and Yokohama Soei High school before being picked by the Yokohama F...
  
   – Iranian-Japanese football player
• Aria Giovanni
  Aria Giovanni
  Aria Giovanni is an American pornographic actress and model who was Penthouse magazine's Pet for the month of September 2000. She has modeled in a range of photographic styles and has also had roles in television shows.-Biography:...
  
  – model and actress