Female first name (Italian): Arianna, the wife of (H) Adriatic, Latin (Roman epithet), information on male form of Adrian, originally the nickname of Publius Aelius Hadrianus Roman Emperor, better known as 'Hadrian' (2nd century ) but this nickname goes back to the origin of his parents, Hadria (Atri today in the Italian province of Teramo), the origin of the name of the city is not known so far contributed 6 popes named Hadrian Hadrianus Female or first name (Italian): Arianna; very holy woman, Ancient Greek (Greek mythology); ari = very, very, hagnos = pure, chaste, undefiled, holy, in Greek mythology, Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete, it is Theseus a ball of wool, so that again place in a maze