Muslim Name · Female · Persian origin
Nargiz Name Meaning in Islam
Narcissus flower.
- Meaning
- Narcissus flower
- Origin
- Persian
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- نرگس
- Meaning in Urdu
- نرگس پھول۔
- Pronunciation
- NAR-giz
- Lucky number
- 6
Is Nargiz an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Nargiz is an established name in Muslim use, Persian in origin. Its settled meaning is: Narcissus flower. 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
Persian narges, the narcissus flower; in poetic usage also the eye of a beloved (Wiktionary). Nargiz is the spelling used in Azerbaijani and Kazakh (Behind the Name).
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Nun of depth opens, Ra of mercy, Gaf (Kaf in Arabic script) of creation, Seen of secret. A flower whose gaze reaches the divine.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Nargiz'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-Nur, the Light, carried by a person as a light that steadies the room. A person named Nargiz carries a full weather system inside a single quiet chest.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Narcissus flower, from Persian نرگس (narges, nargis). Wiktionary gives the Persian word as the narcissus flower, inherited from Middle Persian and ultimately from Greek, and adds that in poetic usage it can also mean the eye of a beauty or beloved.
Nargiz is listed on Behind the Name with Azerbaijani and Kazakh usage, feminine; Behind the Name gives no definition of its own for Nargiz. Sources read 8 Nov 2026: Wiktionary, “نرگس” and Behind the Name, “Nargiz”. Earlier text on this page described “pure white” petals, a Central Asian and Persian Sufi tradition and use in Pakistan and India; none of it could be checked for this name, so it was removed.
How to Pronounce Nargiz
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They are the same name. Nargiz is also written Nargeez. One name, several romanisations of نرگس.
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