Muslim Boy Names Starting with R

Most looked-up Muslim boy names starting with R

Of the 52 names on this page, these are the ones people open most often on AsrNaam. The figures come from our own Search Console data, not from a guess at what is fashionable.

1. RashidراشدRightly-guided, mature in judgment
2. RafiqرفيقCompanion, the gentle helper, the kind friend on the path
3. RuslanرُسْلَانLion
4. RahimرَحِيمMerciful, compassionate
5. RidwanرضوانDivine pleasure/contentment, directly Quranic

Arabic boy names beginning with R

The English letter R has no Arabic counterpart of its own. Every name on this page is written in Arabic beginning with Ra, and it is that letter, not the Latin R, that carries the reading in the Science of Letters.

• رRa opens 52 of them, among them Rashid, Rafiq, Ruslan.

Each letter above links to its full reading: sound, abjad value, element, and the divine name it is associated with. See all twenty-eight letters.

Islamic boy names beginning with R

Islamic tradition asks two things of a name: that its meaning be good, and that it not claim for a child what belongs to God alone. Every name listed on this page is checked against both, which is why a pleasant-sounding name with an unhappy meaning does not appear here.

2 are names of angels or drawn from them.

Raqibرقيب Ridwanرضوان

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Muslim girl names starting with R

Looking for a girl name instead? 93 Muslim girl names start with R.

Rabiaرابعة Rawdaروضة Renadرناد Reshmaريشما Rimshaرمشه Rihannaريحانة Rahaراحة Rimalرمال

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Muslim boy names by other letters

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