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The character in The Tempest, Ariel, is presumed masculine and would of course have been played by a boy in Shakespeare's theatre. But (s)he is magical, not like us, and probably shouldn't be restricted to ordinary human categories. Who knows what fairies get up to when we're not looking, and with whom?

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Arielle, with its Frenchified ending, makes its gender preference clear, which is an advantage. As for pronunciation, I've only ever heard AIR-ee-el on stage, and never encountered a human with either Ariel or Arielle as a name IRL.