Arian is a name with several sources: it is an Albanian name from ar, "gold" or "golden", a Persian name meaning "of the Aryans" or "noble", and in the United States often a masculine form of Ariana or a respelling of Aryan and Arien. The Welsh word arian also means "silver". Arian climbed from number 1300 in 2000 into the US top 1000 in 2011, peaked at number 538 in 2013 and ranks number 965 among boys' names in 2025.