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Arabella ranked in the Top 1000 most given names for
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Latinized form, rather than Arabella's true root. Its usage, long being confined to Great Britain with no equivalent names in evident use elsewhere, would argue for a British origin, such as the Celtic
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American newborn girls for the year 2006, which ranked it at #653: The name has continued to gain favor, ranking on the tally of the most given names for
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interprets the name's meaning as "given to prayer" or "entreatable". Orabilis has been suggested as the root of the name
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Lady Arabella Gresham, major character in the 1858 novel
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Arabella Donn, wife of the title character in the novel
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Arabella Sear-Watkins (born 2006), British figure skater
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173:(1840–1929), English writer and science educator
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272:(circa 1850–1924), American philanthropist
266:(1662–1705), English vocalist and lutenist
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500:(1895) by Thomas Hardy
429:Arabella, heroine of
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306:Arabella Lennox-Boyd
235:The Rape of the Lock
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