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Arabic Muslim Baby Names
1078 Muslim baby names used in the Arabic-speaking world, each with its Arabic and Urdu spelling, its meaning, and its letter-by-letter reading.
1078 names
- On this page
- 1078 names
- Used in
- the Arabic-speaking world
- Split
- 543 boy names, 535 girl names
- Every entry has
- Arabic and Urdu spelling, meaning, and the Ilm ul Huroof reading
What is on this page? 1078 Muslim baby names used in the Arabic-speaking world, each with its Arabic and Urdu spelling, its meaning, and its letter-by-letter reading. Every name links to its full page.
Narrow it down: Arabic boy names (543) · Arabic girl names (535)
How names work in the Arabic-speaking world
These are the names the rest of the Muslim world borrowed from. Arabic naming is built on the triliteral root: three consonants carrying a field of meaning, from which the language derives every word that belongs to it. K-R-M gives Karim, generous, and karam, the generosity itself, and akram, most generous. This is why an Arabic name can be read rather than merely looked up, and why the same name arrives in Lahore, Istanbul and Dakar carrying its meaning intact.
Most looked-up Arabic Muslim names
Ordered by how often visitors open them on AsrNaam.
- ZavianزفيانRadiant, bright, the blazing star of modern Muslim naming 2026
- IbrahimإِبْرَاهِيمFather of nations, the patriarch
- MuhammadمُحَمَّدThe most praised
- RabiaرابعةSpring (the season)
- YusufيُوسُفThe prophet Joseph
- MaryamمَرْيَمThe mother of Jesus, preserved in the Quran (Sūrat Maryam, 19)
- YahyaيَحْيَىHe lives
- AishaعَائِشَةLiving, lively, prosperous, Mother of the Believers, wife of the...
- ZahraزهراءRadiant, blooming, al-Zahrāʾ, an epithet of Fāṭima the Prophet's...
- DaimدائمEternal, perpetual, everlasting, the one who endures without end
What Arabic names tend to mean
Sorted at the Arabic root rather than off the English spelling, the 1078 names here fall most often into these themes.
- Names meaning light, 69 of them here.
- Names meaning beautiful, 63 of them here.
- Names meaning flower, 53 of them here.
- Names meaning mercy, 50 of them here.
- Names meaning noble, 48 of them here.
- Names meaning paradise, 43 of them here.
- Names meaning faith, 39 of them here.
- Names meaning strength, 34 of them here.
Arabic Muslim boy names
543 of the names here are boy names.
Zavianزفيان Ibrahimإِبْرَاهِيم Muhammadمُحَمَّد Yusufيُوسُف Yahyaيَحْيَى Daimدائم Yunusيُونُس Ammarعَمَّار Dilshadدلشاد Anasأَنَس Zulfiqarذو الفقار Arafatعرفات
Arabic Muslim girl names
535 of the names here are girl names.
Rabiaرابعة Maryamمَرْيَم Aishaعَائِشَة Zahraزهراء Ayzalآیزل Faridaفريدة Hanaهناء Feehaفيها Dalalدلال Zainabزَيْنَب Parizadپریزاد Zilzalزلزل
Quranic names used in the Arabic-speaking world
70 of the names on this page appear in the Quran or belong to a figure named in it. A name does not have to be Quranic to be Islamic, but the overlap is worth seeing.
Ibrahimإِبْرَاهِيم Muhammadمُحَمَّد Yusufيُوسُف Maryamمَرْيَم Yahyaيَحْيَى Aishaعَائِشَة Yunusيُونُس Idrisإِدْرِيس Talhaطَلْحَة Aliعَلِيّ Zainabزَيْنَب Eisaعِيسَى
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