Muslim Baby Names Meaning Water

What Muslim names meaning water have in common

Ghayth is the word for rain that arrives when it is needed, and its root also means to come to the aid of someone: the rain and the rescue are the same act. Arabic keeps it separate from matar, ordinary rainfall, which the Quran often uses for punishment. In a language shaped by desert, a name meaning water is a name meaning relief, and the choice between these roots is not decorative.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• غ-ي-ثghayth, rain that relieves, the same root as rescue.
• ن-ه-رnahr, river.
• ب-ح-رbahr, sea, and by extension anything vast.

Most looked-up Muslim baby names meaning water

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. DenizدنيزSea, ocean
2. SayhanسيحانFlowing, the one who moves freely, the river of the Quran's paradise
3. KausarكَوْثَرThe Abundant, the river of paradise given to the Prophet
4. SindhuسندھوNamed for the Indus, the great river of Sindh
5. JafarجَعْفَرStream, small river, Jaʿfar ibn Abi Ṭālib, cousin of the Prophet
6. DeemaديمۃAbundant rain
7. AmayaأماياNight rain
8. MayaماياWater, gift, global Muslim girls name
9. Al-KhwarizmiالْخَوَارِزْمِيFather of Algebra
10. NehirنهرRiver, Turkish girls name

Arabic baby names meaning water

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.

• مMeem opens 7 of them, among them Maya, Manahil, Marissa.
• دDal opens 6 of them, among them Deniz, Deema, Darya.
• نNun opens 6 of them, among them Nehir, Nada, Naoufel.
• سSeen opens 4 of them, among them Sayhan, Sindhu, Salsabil.
• أHamza opens 3 of them, among them Amaya, Engin, Ilayda.

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Islamic baby names meaning water

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 water 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.

Kawtharكَوْثَر Tasnimتسنيم

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Muslim boy names meaning water

14 of these are boy names names.

Sayhanسيحان Jafarجَعْفَر Al-Khwarizmiالْخَوَارِزْمِي Arazآراز Caferجَعْفَر Enginإنكين Gaithغيث Ghaithغيث Mazinمازن Meerabميراب

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Muslim girl names meaning water

35 of these are girl names names.

Denizدنيز Kausarكَوْثَر Sindhuسندھو Deemaديمۃ Amayaأمايا Mayaمايا Nehirنهر Yagmurياغمور Baranباران Belmaبلما

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