Home  ›  All Names  ›  Girl Names  ›  W

Girl Names  ·  W

Muslim Girl Names Starting with W

24 Muslim girl names starting with W, each with its Arabic spelling, meaning, and full Ilm ul Huroof reading. Popular picks include Wadha, Wafa, Wafae. Girls and boys together are on the all names with W page.

24 names

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

On this page
24 names
Gender
Girl names
Grouped by
First letter
Examples
Wadha, Wafa, Wafae, Wajd
Every entry has
Arabic spelling, meaning, and the letter-by-letter Ilm ul Huroof reading

What is on this page? 24 Muslim girl names starting with W, each with its Arabic spelling, meaning, and full Ilm ul Huroof reading. Popular picks include Wadha, Wafa, Wafae. Girls and boys together are on the all names with W page. Every name links to its full page.

وضحاءWadhaWhite, bright وفاءWafaFaithfulness, loyalty, keeping a promise وفاءWafaeLoyalty, Moroccan spelling variant وجدWajdEcstasy, finding, from root w-j-d (wajada, to find). In Su وجدةWajdaWajda, Finder, Quranic girls name ولاءWalaaLoyalty, allegiance ومضةWamdaSpark/flash وانيةWaniaGod's gracious gift وانيةWaniyaGod's gift, gracious, the woman who arrives as divine grace itself واقعةWaqiahThe Event, Surah 56, the resurrection and three groups on Judgement Day وردWardRose, 3-letter form وردةWardaRose, the flower وردةWardahRose, directly Quranic 55:37 وردةWardehRose, Levantine spelling. Wardeh is how Lebanese, Syrian وسيلةWasilaMeans of approach وطفاءWatfaWatfa, Affectionate, Arab girls name ودادWedadLove وجدانWejdanWejdan, Conscience/feeling, Gulf girls وصالWessalWessal ودادWidadLove ودعانWidyanShells, dried river beds, Gulf girls name ولايةWilayaGuardianship, divine friendship وصالWisalUnion, second max coverage وصالWissaleUnion

The 24 names on this page are listed alphabetically above. Here they are again, each with what it means.

  1. WadhaوضحاءWhite, bright
  2. WafaوفاءFaithfulness, loyalty, keeping a promise
  3. WafaeوفاءLoyalty, Moroccan spelling variant
  4. WajdوجدEcstasy, finding, from root w-j-d (wajada, to find)
  5. WajdaوجدةWajda, Finder, Quranic girls name
  6. WalaaولاءLoyalty, allegiance
  7. WamdaومضةSpark/flash
  8. WaniaوانيةGod's gracious gift
  9. WaniyaوانيةGod's gift, gracious, the woman who arrives as divine grace...
  10. WaqiahواقعةThe Event, Surah 56, the resurrection and three groups on...

Arabic girl names beginning with W

The English letter W has no Arabic counterpart of its own. Every name on this page is written in Arabic beginning with Waw, and it is that letter, not the Latin W, that carries the reading in the Science of Letters.

Each letter above links to its full reading: sound, abjad value, element, and the divine name it is associated with. See all twenty-eight letters.

Islamic girl names beginning with W

Islamic tradition asks two things of a name: that its meaning be good, and that it not claim for a child what belongs to God alone. Every name listed on this page is checked against both, which is why a pleasant-sounding name with an unhappy meaning does not appear here.

None of the names starting with this letter are Quranic in the strict sense, but each one has been checked for meaning and for the rule against divine-only titles before it was listed.

Browse the full sets: Quranic names, prophet names, angel names.

Muslim boy names starting with W

Looking for a boy name instead? 21 Muslim boy names start with W.

Wathiqالْوَاثِق Wasifواصف Waqasوقاص Wadudودود Waelوائل Wafikوفيق Wahbوهب Waheedوحید

See all 21 Muslim boy names starting with W or all 45 names starting with W.

Questions about Muslim names starting with W

How many Muslim girl names start with W?
AsrNaam lists 24 of them. Across boys and girls together the letter W accounts for 45 researched names, 21 for boys and 24 for girls. Every one has its Arabic spelling, its meaning, and its letter-by-letter Ilm ul Huroof reading.
What Arabic letter does W correspond to?
One letter only. Every name here is written in Arabic beginning with Waw (و), so the reading of all 24 of them starts from that letter: its element, its abjad value and the divine name attached to it. The Latin W is only how the name is transliterated.
Which Muslim girl name starting with W is most popular?
By what visitors actually search for and open on this site, Wafa lead the letter W. The settled meaning of Wafa is: Faithfulness, loyalty, keeping a promise. Popularity is worth knowing, but the tradition weighs meaning first.
Are all names starting with W Islamic names?
Not automatically. A name becomes Islamic through its meaning and through the absence of any claim on what belongs to God alone, not through its spelling or its first letter. Every name listed here has been checked on both counts.
What is the Ilm ul Huroof reading of a name starting with W?
Open any name on this page and you will find it: the name broken into its Arabic letters, each letter with its element, its abjad value and the divine name it is associated with, then a reading of the whole. It is a tradition for reflection, not for prediction.

Muslim girl names by other letters

Every letter has its own page, with the same meanings, Arabic spellings and readings.