My university currently has a [name_u]Neo[/name_u]-Nazi group stirring up trouble and attempting to recruit on campus. Unfortunately, racist Nazi ideologies are still very much alive. I would avoid [name_m]Aryan[/name_m].
I would refrain from using this name in any country where it would get the whole [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] race thing … its kind of a nono and evokes the whole Nazi/ white supremacist thing that EVERYONE that isn’t that, hates… so [name_u]Ari[/name_u], [name_f]Aria[/name_f], [name_f]Ariana[/name_f], [name_m]Arian[/name_m], [name_f]Ariadne[/name_f], [name_f]Orian[/name_f], [name_m]Orin[/name_m], [name_m]Aaron[/name_m]… basically anything else is very well liked that has a similar sound and look. [name_u]Rohan[/name_u] and [name_u]Rowan[/name_u] are also well loved. Good luck with your naming, I’m sure you’ll find something excellent, lots of helpful people on this site!
[name_u]Rohan[/name_u] is great! [name_m]Aryan[/name_m], no. I actually know a couple that named their son [name_m]Aryan[/name_m], but the dad is [name_f]Indian[/name_f] & they are both very new-age Vancouver yogi types so they probably wouldn’t have even considered the negative connection… still makes me cringe a little when I hear it tho.
[name_u]Orion[/name_u] is an excellent alternative. And comes with the cool mythology connection.
I’d just like to clarify that I’m utterly against nazi ideology of racial supremacy, and that I completely understand all your reasons to reject the name [name_m]Aryan[/name_m].
But I want to make the point that “[name_m]Aryan[/name_m]” is the english translation of the original name, “arische Rasse”. In albanian, the translation would be “raca [name_f]Ariane[/name_f]”, but it is still usable as a name. In Spain, the translation is “raza [name_f]Aria[/name_f]”, and [name_f]Aria[/name_f] is a very popular name. In portuguese, it’s “raça [name_f]Ariana[/name_f]”, but I know portuguese girls with that name.
Should a name be banned because someone horrible used it?
@namergirl3, I get your point, and I agree I wouldn’t want to use the name in your situation. There were a dictatorship in my country for many years, and my family lost members. It happens that the last name of the dictator is a very popular name in a lot of countries. I never ever in my life would use that name, even if a don’t find it ugly. But at the same time, I understand that for many people in the world it hasn’t got the same connotations that has for me.
You’re welcome!
I knew it was an [name_f]Indian[/name_f] name, but it doesn’t help me 
Sorry.
I’m also European and I have heard about the [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] race since I was 8 years old.
My point is that not in all european country it is known as [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] race.
I imagine it’s connection to the Nazis is why you do not see it outside of [name_f]India[/name_f]. Since it sounds like you are looking for something to use internationally I would stay away from it.
I don’t know the specific stats on baby names in [name_f]India[/name_f], but seeing as [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] is apparently very popular (from what I can find, it’s in the top 10—meaning it’s been probably been rising in popularity the past decade) in a country of 1.2 billion people, I’m assuming there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of boys named [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] in [name_f]India[/name_f], Pakistan, and Iran. As everyone has said, it has horrendous connotations in the US and most of Europe, and is relatively unusable here if your child is going to attend school and be raised as an American. It is a different situation if you are raising the child in [name_f]India[/name_f] with the name [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] and he then goes out into the world as a grown man with the name than it is raising a child in the US with that burden to bear. Also, its place on the SS list really means nothing, roughly 4,500 kids were named [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] in the past 10 years in the US. To put that into perspective, there were 19,511 Noahs born in just 2015. You will likely not run into an [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] in the states and it is far from common or well accepted.
A similar dutch name is [name_m]Arjen[/name_m] (pronounced like the three letter R-E-N) and no one would connect this name with the [name_m]Aryan[/name_m] race.