Muslim Baby Names Meaning Mercy

What Muslim names meaning mercy have in common

Rahmah, mercy, comes from rahim, the womb. Every chapter of the Quran but one opens by naming God ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, and the tradition reads the shared root as deliberate: mercy that shelters and sustains before anything is earned. Lutf is kindness so fine it is not noticed while it works. Hilm is mercy as restraint, the choice not to act on a right you hold.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• ر-ح-مrahmah, mercy, from the same root as the womb.
• ل-ط-فlutf, subtle kindness, care too fine to see working.
• ح-ل-مhilm, forbearance, mercy expressed as restraint.

Most looked-up Muslim baby names meaning mercy

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. AshfaqأشفقMost compassionate friend, kindest companion
2. MirnaميرناMirna, Tender, Levantine girls name
3. MeherمہرPersian: kindness, dowry, sun
4. RafiqرفيقCompanion, the gentle helper, the kind friend on the path
5. ReshmaريشماSilken, soft, the silky smooth woman of gentle refined quality
6. RahimرَحِيمMerciful, compassionate
7. LiyanaليانةSoft, gentle, tender, the woman of graceful yielding strength
8. YalinaياليناSoft, gentle, blooming, the tender one who blossoms with grace
9. HananحنانTenderness, compassion, top Arab girls' name
10. NaseemنسيمGentle breeze, soft wind

Arabic baby names meaning mercy

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.

• رRa opens 19 of them, among them Rafiq, Reshma, Rahim.
• عAin opens 15 of them, among them Abd ar Rahman, Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf, Abderrahim.
• لLam opens 11 of them, among them Liyana, Lamees, Latifa.
• حHa opens 7 of them, among them Hanan, Haleem, Haleema.
• مMeem opens 7 of them, among them Mirna, Meher, Maheen.

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

Islamic baby names meaning mercy

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 mercy 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.

Rahmaرَحْمَة Abdulrahmanعَبْد الرَّحْمَن Rahmahرَحْمَة

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Muslim boy names meaning mercy

36 of these are boy names names.

Ashfaqأشفق Rafiqرفيق Rahimرَحِيم Naseemنسيم Chafiqشفيق Abd ar Rahmanعَبْد الرَّحْمَن Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awfعبد الرحمن بن عوف Abderrahimعَبْد الرَّحِيم Abderraoufعبد الرؤوف Abdirahmanعَبْد الرَّحْمَن

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Muslim girl names meaning mercy

45 of these are girl names names.

Mirnaميرنا Meherمہر Reshmaريشما Liyanaليانة Yalinaيالينا Hananحنان Rahmaرَحْمَة Maheenماهين Aleenaألينا Anaآنا

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