Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Hind Name Meaning in Islam
Indian gazelle.
- Meaning
- Indian gazelle
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ه-ن-د
- Urdu
- ہند
- Meaning in Urdu
- ہندوستانی غزال
- Pronunciation
- HIND
- Lucky number
- 5
Is Hind an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Hind is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Indian gazelle. 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
ه-ن-د. From the Arabic root h-n-d referring to India and to the great curved Indian sword (al-muhannad). The name was borne by Hind bint ʿUtba, mother of the Umayyad caliph Muʿāwiya. The root developed the verbal sense of 'to make a sword like the Indian one' (i.e., excellent).
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
The Ha-light (ه) opens identity, the Nun (ن) draws from the inkwell of knowledge, and the Dal (د) is the door of return. The letters together trace a self whose identity returns through knowledge to its door.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Hind's letters draw from many elements at once, a full palette, not a single note. This is a name that asks its bearer to hold contradictions gracefully: warmth and steadiness, movement and depth. Running through the reading is Al-Hadi, the Guide, carried by a person as the animating breath that guides others through. A person named Hind is many things at once, and gets to choose which shows up when.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
From the Arabic هند (hind), a classical Arab girls' name whose meanings in the classical lexicons include 'a hundred she-camels' and 'the Indian gazelle'. The name also names the subcontinent of India (al-Hind), from the classical Arab trade routes.
The name is honoured in Hind bint Abi Umayya (Umm Salama, RA), Mother of the Believers, one of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ and a woman of extraordinary intelligence whose counsel to him at the Treaty of Hudaybiyya broke a stalemate. She was the last of the Prophet's wives to die, in 61 AH.
Hind is a widely used classical Arab girls' name. It asks that a daughter carry the dignity that Umm Salama modelled in the earliest Muslim community.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Hind bint Utbah7th century·Mecca, ArabiaWife of Abu Sufyan, mother of the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya
How to Pronounce Hind
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Hind
What does the name Hind mean?
The letters that build Hind each speak on their own terms. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Hind? →
Is Hind mentioned in the Quran?
Quranic vocabulary lies behind a large share of Muslim names, Hind included where its root appears. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Hind mean in Urdu?
Urdu poets and scholars kept the letter qualities readable; that lineage flows under Hind. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Hind a good Islamic name?
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Is Hind a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Hind in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. In the Ilm ul Huroof tradition each letter in Hind, starting from Ha, is read as a principle of the name; this is interpretation offered for reflection. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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