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ستاره

Setareh Name Meaning in Islam

Star.

ستاره·Setareh
Meaning
Star. Iranian top girls name
Origin
Arabic
Gender
Girl
Urdu
ستارہ
Pronunciation
se-TA-reh
Lucky number
9

Is Setareh an Islamic name? Yes. Setareh is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Star. Iranian top girls name. 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 origin, sitāre, star. A Persian girls' name evoking the brilliant point in the sky.

Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof

Read Letter by Letter

Sin of secret opens, Ta of completion, Alif of origin, Ra of mercy, Ha of presence. A star made into mercy's presence.

Section 3 · Synthesis

What This Reading Says About You

Setareh'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-Sami, the All-Hearing, carried by a person as the alertness to hear what is not being said aloud. A person named Setareh lives with more inside them than any one word can hold.

Section 4 · What Families Say

What People Usually Mean by This Name

Star. Persian setareh (star). Top Iranian girls name alongside Fatemeh, Zahra, and Maryam. The girl named Setareh carries the quality of the star: clear, fixed in position, guiding, beautiful from afar. 'And We adorned the lowest heaven with lamps (masabih)' (67:5). 85 million Iranian Muslims.

Section 5 · Bearers

Who Has Carried This Name

How to Pronounce Setareh

Pronunciationse-TA-reh  ·  se·ta·reh  ·  3 syllables

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Like Setareh, these names carry Sin (س) as their leading letter influence.

They are the same name. Each spelling of Setareh sits in the community that uses it, with its own readers and its own history.

Setareh ✓SitarehSetare

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About the name Setareh

What does the name Setareh mean?
Setareh means: Star. Iranian top girls name.

Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about Setareh? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Setareh? →

Is Setareh mentioned in the Quran?
The exact form Setareh does not appear directly in the Quran. Its Arabic root, however, appears in the Quran; the name carries the root, not the verse.

Quranic vocabulary lies behind a large share of Muslim names, Setareh included where its root appears. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →

What does Setareh mean in Urdu?
Setareh in Urdu is ستارہ (Setareh) in the South Asian Islamic tradition.

Centuries of Urdu writing carried the Arabic letter readings forward, and Setareh carries them too. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →

Is Setareh a good Islamic name?
Yes. Setareh is a name valued in Muslim tradition, meaning Star. Iranian top girls name. The Prophet ﷺ said: "You will be called by your names on the Day of Resurrection, so give yourselves good names" (Abu Dawud). Every letter in Setareh carries a specific spiritual quality, not metaphorically, but structurally.

The letters of Setareh, each with its own reading, are laid out above ↑ jump to the letters reading ↑

Is Setareh a girl or boy name?
Setareh is traditionally a Muslim girl name meaning Star. Iranian top girls name. Used across Pakistan, the Arab world, Turkey, Malaysia, and Muslim diaspora communities worldwide, each community with their own spelling and their own story.

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What is the spiritual meaning of Setareh in Ilm ul Huroof?
Sin expands, Ta gives goodness, Alif grounds, Ra moves with mercy, Ha breathes presence.

This is Ilm ul Huroof, the classical Islamic science of letters in the line of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Every Arabic letter under Setareh is an ontological principle, not just a sound. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →

What names go perfectly with Setareh as a sibling name?
The best sibling names for Setareh share a complementary spiritual quality, either the same root letter or a harmonious contrast. Parents instinctively seek names whose letter qualities form a coherent family field.

Above, the related-names section gives the names parents most often pair with Setareh. Use letter family and root as your guide.

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Is Setareh a rare or common Muslim name?
Setareh (Star. Iranian top girls name) is used across the Muslim world. Pakistan, the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, Malaysia, and wherever Muslims name their children with intention. The specific spelling you see here is one of the recognised forms. Different communities claim their own spelling, each one a signature of a tradition.

To compare spellings of Setareh across communities, see the variants above ↑ or browse all names → See all spelling variants above ↑, or browse all names →

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