Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Sidra Name Meaning in Islam
The lote tree at the boundary of paradise.
- Meaning
- The lote tree at the boundary of paradise. Quran 53:14
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- سدرہ
- Pronunciation
- SID-ra
- Lucky number
- 8
Is Sidra an Islamic name? Yes. Sidra is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: The lote tree at the boundary of paradise. Quran 53:14. 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
س-د-ر, from s-d-r, the lote tree. Sidrat al-Muntahā is the lote tree of the boundary that marks the limit of created knowledge, beyond which only God's reality lies (Q 53:14).
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Sin secret, Dal return, Ra mercy, Ta completion.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Sidra'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 Sidra 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 lote-tree, from the Quranic sidra. The Quran names Sidrat al-Muntaha (the Lote-Tree of the Boundary) as the tree that marks the furthest point any creature has reached in its ascent to the divine presence, the boundary the Prophet ﷺ himself reached during the Mi'raj (Night Journey): 'And he certainly saw him in another descent at the Lote-Tree of the Boundary, near it is the Garden of Refuge, when there covered the Lote-Tree that which covered it. The sight did not swerve, nor did it transgress' (53:13-17).
Classical commentators describe the Sidrat al-Muntaha as a tree of immense beauty whose leaves are like elephants' ears and whose fruit is like clay jars. It marks the limit beyond which only Allah's permission can carry a creature; the angel Jibril himself stopped there during the Prophet's ascent, saying: 'If I went a finger's breadth further, I would burn'.
The name Sidra as a girls name calls the bearer to that horizon: the soul that climbs steadily towards the boundary of what creation can achieve. Top Pakistani and Arab girls name. Variants: Sidrah, Sidrat, Sidratul, Sedra. The Arabic is سِدْرَة.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
How to Pronounce Sidra
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Sidra
What does the name Sidra mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about Sidra? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Sidra? →
Is Sidra mentioned in the Quran?
Quranic vocabulary lies behind a large share of Muslim names, Sidra included where its root appears. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Sidra mean in Urdu?
The Urdu tradition preserved the meaning of each Arabic letter, the same letters that build Sidra. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Sidra a good Islamic name?
The letters of Sidra, each with its own reading, are laid out above ↑ jump to the letters reading ↑
Is Sidra a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Sidra in Ilm ul Huroof?
In Ilm ul Huroof, the science of letters that Ibn Arabi worked within, every letter of Sidra is a principle, not a phoneme. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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