Lovely English second name for first name Aarya (British -Indian kid )

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hello all!

We've got Aarya for a first name deriving from my native scriptural language in India - Sanskrit. Aarya in Sanskrit means noble. So that's the Indian bit of her heritage.

DH is White British (we can't wait to see how DC looks!) and for the moment are looking for an English girls name as a suitable second name to go with Aarya.

Till now we have - (with double barrelled last name)

Aarya Iris
Aarya Sophie
Aarya Thea

But none of them have wowed us. Also because we have an Indian first name to reflect my heritage and culture and language (hence Aarya) we would like an English second name to reflect her Dad.

Any ideas?

Ta muchly!

Aarya Jane
Aarya Eleanor
Aarya Catherine
Aarya Juliet
Aarya Jean
Aarya Harriet
Aarya Violet
Aarya Beth

Elizabeth is lovely.

Aarya May was my first thought. How do you pronounce it? Ar-ry-a?

Felicity

Aarya Charlotte
Aarya Jessica
Aarya Emily
Aarya Mary
Aarya Mabel

Personally I like single syllable middle names, especially if double-barrelled surname.

May
Rose
Dawn
?

Another vote for Elizabeth.

Grace
Lauren

My first thought was Elizabeth! Might be a bit biased as it's a family name :)

Is it pronounced Aria as in opera song, or Ar-ya as in Game Of Thrones?

Thanks all! The authentic Sanskrit way to pronounce it would be Aaar - yah (with a very long drawn Aa and a prominent R) not the GoT style "Ah-ya"

But as I said, like Latin, Sanskrit is a scriptural unspoken language now. Languages have since derived from it. So, my mother tongue Bengali would pronounce it as "Aarja" with a J. Which is fine.

I love all these names!! Very much!

Elizabeth also came to my mind before opening the thread

Aaaaaah! Then I think something short would be best, so that you would linger over the first name. Dawn or Joy sound nice to me. (But perhaps not Joy if you are going to sound the y as a j?)

Aarya Rose

I like Rose or May.

Rose

Very beautiful name OP with an equally lovely meaning. I like Rose and Beth and would probably go with something short.

Rose was the first name to spring to mind.

I'd also go for single syllable eg

Grace
Joy
Pearl
Dawn
Ruth
Tess

I like Aarya Jane.

I would choose a single syllable name.

As a mummy to a British-Indian baby as well (same as you, dad white and i'm Bengali!)- its so hard picking names!

I think the pp who said single syllable names was perhaps on the right track. But i personally love long names and since her first name is quite short you could get away with something longer. i also think a name starting with a harder sounding letter would sound nice.

Rose
May
Zoe
Violet
Zara
Good luck op.

Rose is also nice.

We had the same issue - wanted to reflect both cultures in name. If we'd had a daughter her middle name would've been Violet.

confused.
All the Aarya/Aryas we know are boys!
As a girls' name it sounds right to a Western ear but won't your Eastern family find it odd?

With a western ear: Aarya Jane or Jean or Joy sound nice.

I think it needs to start with a consonant so the names don't run into each other.

Single syllable might work well

Grace
Rae
Kate

Or longer!

Helena
Florence
Imogen

I do love Thea from your list though.