Muslim Girl Names Meaning Faithful

What Muslim names meaning faith have in common

Iman, faith, shares its root with amn, safety, and amin, trustworthy. To believe and to be someone others can rely on are the same word in Arabic, which is why the Prophet was called al-Amin before he was called anything else. Taqwa is from a root meaning to shield: awareness of God as a guard on conduct. Abd, servant, is the most common element in Muslim names of all.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• أ-م-نiman, faith, safety and trustworthiness in one root.
• ع-ب-دabd, servant, the root of worship.
• ت-ق-يtaqwa, God-consciousness, from a root meaning to guard.

Most looked-up Muslim girl names meaning faith

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. AabidaعابدةDevoted worshipper, she who gives her life to worship
2. BarirahبرّةPious, devoted to goodness
3. SajdahسجدةProstration, Surah As-Sajdah (32), the act of worship closest to...
4. HanifaحنيفةUpright monotheist, title of Ibrahim
5. VeraفيراVera, Faith/true, European convert bridge
6. DinaديناReligion, the religious one, feminine of Dīn
7. IsabellaإيزابيلاDevoted to God, Western Muslim convert
8. IlliyeenعليينThe highest heaven, the Quranic register of the deeds of the...
9. AbrarأبرارThe righteous, plural Quranic
10. AdeenaأدينةPious, devoted, the woman whose life is organised around genuine...

Arabic girl names meaning faith

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.

• أHamza opens 10 of them, among them Isabella, Abrar, Adeena.
• عAin opens 3 of them, among them Aabida, Illiyeen, Asr.
• بBa opens 3 of them, among them Barirah, Barira, Barra.
• مMeem opens 2 of them, among them Momina, Muslimah.

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

Islamic girl names meaning faith

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 faith because that is what it means, not because it resembles a word.

2 of them are Quranic, appearing in the Quran or borne by a figure named in it.

Ikhlasإخلاص Imanإِيمَان

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Muslim boy names meaning faith

Looking for a boy name name instead? 38 boy names names mean faith.

Aminuأمين Deenدين Salihصَالِح Aladdinعلاء الدين Sajjadسجاد Sajidساجد Zainul Abideenزين العابدين Zainulزين العابدين Salahصلاح Aabidعابد

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