Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Dua Name Meaning in Islam
Prayer, supplication.
- Meaning
- Prayer, supplication. Pakistani top 3 girls name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- د-ع-و
- Urdu
- دعاء
- Pronunciation
- DU-a
- Lucky number
- 4
Is Dua an Islamic name? Yes. Dua is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Prayer, supplication. Pakistani top 3 girls name. It was carried by Dua Lipa. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
د-ع-و. Arabic root meaning to call, to invite, to supplicate; the source of du'a (prayer of asking) and da'wah (call to faith).
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Dal opens the door between servant and Lord, Ain perceives the inward longing of the heart, Alif raises the upright voice of asking, and Hamza is the primordial breath that begins every prayer.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Water pools in Dua, the element of mercy, feeling, and receptive depth. The letters ask their bearer to hold others without hardening, to be a well and not a wall. Anchoring this reading is Al-Dayyan, the Judge, calling the person toward the fair judgment that keeps a household whole. A person named Dua carries the compassion of a river that keeps going.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Supplication, the believer's prayer, the direct call to Allah, from the root د-ع-و (da'a, to call, to invoke). Du'a is one of the central acts of Islamic worship, distinguished from salah (the formal ritual prayer) by being the unscripted, intimate calling out of the believer to Allah. The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Du'a is worship itself' (Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud), and: 'Nothing repels the divine decree except du'a' (Tirmidhi).
The Quran is filled with the du'as of the prophets, each one a model: Adam's 'Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves' (7:23), Nuh's 'My Lord, forgive me' (71:28), Ibrahim's 'Our Lord, accept this from us' (2:127), Yunus's 'There is no god but You, glory be to You, indeed I have been of the wrongdoers' (21:87), Musa's 'My Lord, expand my chest for me' (20:25), and the believers': 'Our Lord, do not place upon us a burden like that which You laid upon those before us' (2:286).
The name Dua as a girls name expresses the bearer's identity as someone whose life is a continuous calling to Allah. Top Pakistani, Egyptian, Levantine, and Maghrebi girls name; particularly fashionable across the 2010s and 2020s. Variants: Duaa, Du'a, Doa, Doua. The Arabic is دُعَاء.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Dua Lipa . Kosovan-Albanian Muslim-heritage British singer, three-time Grammy winner and one of the most-streamed artists in the world
How to Pronounce Dua
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Variants of this name
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Dua
What does the name Dua mean?
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Is Dua mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Dua mean in Urdu?
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Is Dua a good Islamic name?
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Is Dua a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Dua in Ilm ul Huroof?
In Ilm ul Huroof, the science of letters that Ibn Arabi worked within, every letter of Dua is a principle, not a phoneme. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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