Muslim Baby Names Meaning Brave

What Muslim names meaning brave have in common

The lion does most of the work here. Arabic has scores of words for lion and Muslim naming uses many of them: Asad, Haidar, Laith, Ghadanfar, Usama, each with a different shade. Shujaa is courage proper, a disposition rather than an animal. The tradition treats courage as the mean between recklessness and cowardice, so a name in this family is not a claim to fearlessness.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• ش-ج-عshajaah, courage as a settled disposition.
• أ-س-دasad, lion, the standing image of courage.
• ب-س-لbasala, valour, and also what is forbidden, from fearlessness.

Most looked-up Muslim baby names meaning brave

Ordered by how often visitors open them on AsrNaam, from our own Search Console figures rather than from a guess at what is in fashion this year.

1. ZaviyarزاویارBrave and noble, the number one trending Muslim boy name in...
2. Zulfiqarذو الفقارDhul Fiqar, the sword of Ali
3. HamzaحَمْزَةLion, strong, the Prophet's uncle, martyr of Uhud
4. GhaziغازيWarrior
5. Saifullahسيف اللهSword of Allah, title of Khalid ibn al-Walid
6. RuslanرُسْلَانLion
7. OsamaأُسَامَةLion, the brave young commander chosen by the Prophet at seventeen
8. AslanاصلانLion
9. YigitيكيتYouth, valiant, Turkish boys name
10. SarimصارمSharp sword, decisive, the brave warrior of clear and resolute...

Arabic baby names meaning brave

Every name here is an Arabic or Arabic-script name, and in Ilm ul Huroof the reading starts from the letter it opens with, not from the English transliteration. These are the letters that open the names in this theme.

• حHa opens 12 of them, among them Hamza, Hafsa, Hyder Ali.
• اAlif opens 9 of them, among them Aslan, Alper, Arash.
• أHamza opens 8 of them, among them Osama, Arshan, Atsiz.
• دDal opens 5 of them, among them Zulfiqar, Dhul Faqar, Dhulfiqar.
• سSeen opens 5 of them, among them Saifullah, Saif, Saifuddin.

Each letter links to its element, abjad value and divine name. All twenty-eight letters.

Islamic baby names meaning brave

A name is Islamic through its meaning and through the absence of any claim on what belongs to God alone, not through its sound. That is what this page is sorted on: every name here has been read against the classical lexicons and placed under brave because that is what it means, not because it resembles a word.

One of them is Quranic.

Hamzaحَمْزَة

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Muslim boy names meaning brave

66 of these are boy names names.

Zaviyarزاویار Zulfiqarذو الفقار Hamzaحَمْزَة Ghaziغازي Saifullahسيف الله Ruslanرُسْلَان Osamaأُسَامَة Aslanاصلان Yigitيكيت Sarimصارم

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