Muslim Name · Male · Aramaic (preserved in Quranic Arabic) origin
Idris Name Meaning in Islam
The prophet Idris (often identified with Enoch).
- Meaning
- The prophet Idris (often identified with Enoch); the studious one
- Origin
- Aramaic (preserved in Quranic Arabic)
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- د-ر-س
- Urdu
- ادریس
- Pronunciation
- id-REES
- Lucky number
- 5
Is Idris an Islamic name? Yes. Idris is an established name in Muslim use, Aramaic (preserved in Quranic Arabic) in origin. Its settled meaning is: The prophet Idris (often identified with Enoch); the studious one. Its root appears in the Quran, and the name is in continuous use across the Muslim world. It was carried by Idris I. 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-ر-س. From d-r-s, to study or learn, the one who teaches and studies.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Alif origin, Dal returning door, Ra mercy, Ya reaching, Sin expansion. The reading is a soul whose origin opens a door of mercy, who reaches and expands through study.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Idris'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-Ahad, the One, carried by a person as a singular, undivided presence. A person named Idris lives with more inside them than any one word can hold.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Raised to a high station. Idris (AS), the Quranic prophet of knowledge and craft. 'And mention in the Book Idris, indeed he was a man of truth, a prophet. And We raised him to a high station (rafa'nahu makanan aliyyan)' (19:56-57). Idris is identified with Enoch in Abrahamic tradition and with Hermes Trismegistus in some Islamic scholarship, the master of all sciences, inventor of writing, the one who first studied the stars.
Ibn Arabi placed Idris at the fourth heaven (the heaven of the sun) in the Miraj. The prophet of illuminated knowledge. Top Pakistani, Arab, and West African boys name.
Idrīs (AS), often identified with Enoch, is named directly in the Quran at 19:56–57 and 21:85–86. The Quran calls him 'a truthful prophet' and says 'We raised him to a high station' (19:57), interpreted classically as both literal elevation and the elevation of his rank.
Islamic tradition (Ibn ʿAbbās, al-Ṭabarī) places him as the first prophet after Ādam to write with the pen, the first to study the stars and craft tools. The name itself is from the root د-ر-س (to study, to learn).
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Idris I . Founder of the Idrisid dynasty, the first Islamic state in Morocco; great-great-grandson of the Prophet ﷺ through Hasan.
- Idris II . Idrisid ruler; founder-builder of the city of Fez.
- Idris Alooma . Mai (ruler) of the Kanem-Bornu Empire; reformer who institutionalised Sharia in the central Sahel.
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Variants of this name
AsrNaam keeps a separate page for each common spelling of Idris, each one carrying its own readings and notes.
In English this is Enoch. The two names belong to the same prophet, and that page reads the Quranic and Biblical accounts side by side.
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Names sharing the إ Alif influence
Like Idris, these names carry Alif (إ) as their leading letter influence.
Cross-cultural Variations
Idris across the Muslim world
The same Arabic name is romanised differently across communities, same letters, same root, same reading. Each form carries the same spiritual structure; each entry is its own canonical reading on AsrNaam.
Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Idris
What does the name Idris mean?
The letters of Idris, beginning with Alif, each carry a separate quality. What does Ilm ul Huroof read here? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Idris? →
Is Idris mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Idris mean in Urdu?
Centuries of Urdu writing carried the Arabic letter readings forward, and Idris carries them too. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Idris a good Islamic name?
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What is the spiritual meaning of Idris in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is Ilm ul Huroof, the classical Islamic science of letters in the line of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Every Arabic letter under Idris is an ontological principle, not just a sound. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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