Muslim Baby Names Meaning Guidance

What Muslim names meaning guidance have in common

Huda, guidance, comes from a root that also gives hadiyyah, a gift. Guidance in this tradition is something handed over rather than achieved, which is why the opening chapter of the Quran asks for it as a request rather than claiming it. Rushd is different: the soundness of judgment that comes with maturity, and Rashid means one who has it.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• ه-د-يhuda, guidance, from a root that also means to give a gift.
• ر-ش-دrushd, right direction, maturity of judgment.

Most looked-up Muslim baby names meaning guidance

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. RashidراشدRightly-guided, mature in judgment
2. DalilدليلGuide, proof, the one who shows the way
3. HadiyaهديةGift, guide, the divine gift and the one who guides to what is right
4. MehdiمهديThe Guided One
5. Nurhidayahنور ہدایہLight of guidance, Malay compound name
6. AbdulhadiعبدالهاديServant of Al-Hadi, the Guide
7. ArshadأرشدMost rightly guided, wisest, on the truest path
8. BayyinahبينةClear Evidence, Surah 98, the clear proof of divine guidance
9. DalilaدليلةGuide, proof, feminine of Dalil
10. HaadiهاديThe guide

Arabic baby names meaning guidance

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.

• هHa (light) opens 8 of them, among them Hadiya, Haadi, Hadi.
• نNun opens 6 of them, among them Nurhidayah, Najma, Nour Houda.
• رRa opens 4 of them, among them Rashid, Rachida, Rahsyid.
• مMeem opens 3 of them, among them Mehdi, Mahdi, Minhaj.
• دDal opens 2 of them, among them Dalil, Dalila.

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

Islamic baby names meaning guidance

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

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

Hidayahهداية Hudaهُدَى Minhajمنهاج

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Muslim boy names meaning guidance

12 of these are boy names names.

Rashidراشد Dalilدليل Mehdiمهدي Abdulhadiعبدالهادي Arshadأرشد Haadiهادي Hadiهادي Khawajaخواجہ Khidrالخضر Mahdiمهدي

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Muslim girl names meaning guidance

16 of these are girl names names.

Hadiyaهدية Nurhidayahنور ہدایہ Bayyinahبينة Dalilaدليلة Hidayahهداية Hidayatہدايت Hodaهدى Houdaهُدَى Hudaهُدَى Najmaنجمة

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