About Asrnaam

Asrnaam is a free, research-driven library of Muslim baby names — read through both classical lexicography and Ilm ul Huroof, the Islamic Science of Letters.

What we publish

Over 2,000 canonical Muslim baby names for boys and girls, each with:

• The Arabic spelling and three-letter root (where applicable).
• The dictionary meaning, with the classical Arabic lexicon as the first source of truth.
• The Quranic citation when the name or its root appears in scripture.
• The Urdu form, used by families across South Asia.
• A reading through Ilm ul Huroof — what each letter of the name contributes to its character.

Why Ilm ul Huroof?

Most baby-name sites stop at the dictionary meaning. Ilm ul Huroof — the classical Islamic Science of Letters — holds that the Arabic letters in a name are not arbitrary glyphs. Each one encodes an ontological principle. The tradition is rooted in the work of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165–1240 CE), who set out the metaphysics most fully, and reaches back through Ja'far al-Sadiq and earlier Sufi authorities. Reading a name through its letters is not divination; it is a contemplative reading of structure.

Read more on what Ilm ul Huroof is and isn't →

Method & sources

Each name page is reviewed against multiple authorities:

• Classical Arabic lexicons (Lisan al-Arab, al-Sihah, Taj al-Arus) for the root meaning.
• Quranic concordances for scriptural occurrences of the root.
• Historical and biographical sources for famous bearers (companions of the Prophet, classical scholars, prominent figures).
• Ibn Arabi's Futuhat al-Makkiyya and later Sufi commentaries for the letter readings.

We do not invent meanings. Where a name's classical attestation is contested or thin, we say so on the page rather than fabricate certainty. The Famous Bearers section is reserved for figures whose identification with the name is widely attested.

What we are not

We are not a fatwa service, an astrology site, or a numerology calculator. Ilm ul Huroof is structural, not predictive — it reads what a name's letters carry, not what a person's future will be.

Contact

Corrections, suggestions, and citation requests are warmly welcomed at hello@asrnaam.com. See our Contact page for response times.