Modern variant of Arya, a Sanskrit and Persian name meaning 'noble' or 'honorable.'
Arrayah is a richly layered variant that appears to blend several luminous naming traditions into something entirely its own. Its closest phonetic kin is Arya — from the Sanskrit arya, meaning "noble," "honorable," or "of high birth" — a title of esteem used across ancient India and Persia, and the probable root of the word "Iran" itself (land of the Aryans, in the original sense of noble peoples). R.
Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO series Game of Thrones, where Arya Stark — fierce, independent, and unconventional — became one of fiction's defining young heroines of the early twenty-first century. The "Array" opening also evokes the poetic English word for a splendid arrangement or marshaling of beautiful things — an army of light, a display of stars. This secondary resonance is almost certainly accidental in origin but gives the name an additional layer of imagery: something organized and radiant, a gathering of many elements into one powerful whole.
The "-yah" ending connects the name to a Hebrew naming tradition in which the divine name (Yah, short for Yahweh) appears as a suffix — as in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and a host of feminine names. Whether or not that theological dimension is intended, it lends Arrayah a note of transcendence, a sense that this name reaches upward. The full spelling is ornate and visual, suggesting parents who wanted not just a name but a word that looks as beautiful on paper as it sounds when spoken aloud.