Ariadne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Ariadne (daughter of King Minos)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɐɾjaðnɨ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ariadne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 29K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 109K
- PAPanama≈1 in 9.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ariadne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
7,206 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ariadni in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphae.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ariadne is read(measured from records)
Ariadne is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese39%
Ariadne (daughter of King Minos)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish34%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ariadne in Spanish.
- English17%
The daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphae.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
daughter of Minos and Pasiphae
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Greek name meaning "most holy".
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ariadne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 7,206 | 1 in 29K | 7.2K | Ariadne | 114 |
| US United States | — | 3,062 | 1 in 109K | 3.1K | Ariadne | 144 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,524 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Ariadne | 43 |
| PA Panama | #464 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Ariadne | 23 |
| BO Bolivia | #588 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Ariadne | 21 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 197as Αριαδνη | 1 in 6.4K | 197 | Ariadni | 9 |
7,206 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ariadne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Ariadna: aus der griechischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latin, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Ariadne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ariadneb. 452TRByzantine empress as the wife of Zeno and Anastasius I
- Ariadne Gettyb. 1962USAmerican philanthropist
- Ariadne Hernándezb. 1966MXMexican Paralympian
- Ariadne Daskalakisb. 1969USAmerican violinist based in Germany
- Ariadne von Schirachb. 1978DEGerman writer
- Ariadne Artilesb. 1982ESSpanish model (1982-)
- Ariadne Díazb. 1986MXMexican actress and model
- Aryb. 1993NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer (1993-)
- Jonatha Ariadne CaspianUSUS author and game designer (1960-)
- Ariadne VromenAUAustralian political sociologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.2K | #2,127 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.8K | #2,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,556 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #2,128 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #1,112 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 116 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 115 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54 | #2,127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #5,556 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ariadne?
- A machine transcription gives /ɐɾjaðnɨ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Ariadne?
- In the etymology graph, Ariana, Ariane and Arianna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Ariadne a male or female name?
- Ariadne is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Where does the name Ariadne come from?
- The daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphae. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Ariadne mean?
- In Portuguese, Ariadne (daughter of King Minos)
- In which country does Ariadne have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Ariadne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ariadne.
- How common is the name Ariadne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,206 people named Ariadne in 2022, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Ariadne compared with other names?
- In Panama, Ariadne is the 464th most common given name of 24,657 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ariadneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ariadne” — the 464th most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.