Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Nida Name Meaning in Islam
Call, summons, the divine call.
- Meaning
- Call, summons, the divine call
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ن-د-و
- Urdu
- ندا
- Pronunciation
- NI-da
- Lucky number
- 2
Is Nida an Islamic name? Yes. Nida is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Call, summons, the divine call. 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
ن-د-و, from n-d-w/n-d-ʾ, to call out. Nidāʾ is the call, the proclamation; Q 19:3 'idh nādā rabbahū nidāʾan khafiyyā', when he called his Lord a hidden call.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Nun of depth opens, Dal of return, Alif of origin. A call from the deep, returning to the source.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Nida'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 Nida 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
The call, the announcement, the cry that summons, from the root ن-د-ي (nada, to call, to summon). The Quran uses this exact root for the call to prayer: 'O you who have believed, when the call (nudiya) is made for prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah' (62:9). The same root gives the noun al-munadi (the caller, the herald): 'Our Lord, indeed we have heard a caller (munadiyan) calling to faith. Believe in your Lord, and we have believed' (3:193).
The Quran also uses nida in the eschatological scenes: 'And listen on the Day when the Caller will call out from a near place' (50:41), referring to the angel who will summon humanity on the Day of Judgement. The believer's life is bracketed by calls: the first call he hears as a newborn (the adhan whispered in his ear), the five daily calls of the muezzin, and the final call to gather before Allah.
The name Nida as a girls name carries the spiritual weight of the call, the woman whose name itself is a summons toward prayer, faith, and the right path. Top Pakistani, Indian-Muslim, Egyptian, and Levantine girls name. Variants: Nida, Nidaa, Nida'a, Nidha. The Arabic is نِدَاء.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
How to Pronounce Nida
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About the name Nida
What does the name Nida mean?
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Is Nida mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Nida mean in Urdu?
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Is Nida a good Islamic name?
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Is Nida a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Nida in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. Each letter in Nida, starting from Nun, is a structural principle. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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