Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Yusra Name Meaning in Islam
Ease, directly Quranic, stated twice.
- Meaning
- Ease, directly Quranic, stated twice
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- یسریٰ
- Pronunciation
- YUS-ra
- Lucky number
- 1
Is Yusra an Islamic name? Yes. Yusra is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Ease, directly Quranic, stated twice. 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
ي-س-ر, feminine elative of Yusr, from y-s-r. Yusrā is the easier path. Q 92:7 'fa-sa-nuyassiruhū li-l-yusrā'. We shall make easy for him the easier path.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Ya reaching, Sin secret, Ra mercy, Ya reaching.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Yusra'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-Qayyum, the Self-Sustaining, carried by a person as a self-holding constancy. A person named Yusra carries a full weather system inside a single quiet chest.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Yusra (يُسرى, yusrā) means ease, prosperity, the easy path, taken directly from one of the most luminous verses of the Qur'an. In Sūrat al-Layl Allah promises the one who gives charity, fears Him, and affirms the Beautiful: fa-sa-nuyassiruhu li-l-yusrā, "We shall make easy for him the path of ease" (92:7). The root ي-س-ر animates one of the most repeated divine promises in the Qur'an: fa-inna maʿa l-ʿusri yusrā · inna maʿa l-ʿusri yusrā, "Indeed with hardship comes ease; indeed with hardship comes ease" (94:5–6). The name is therefore a quiet act of faith: the parent names the child after the divine guarantee that ease follows difficulty. Yusra is widely used as a feminine name across the Arab world, especially in Egypt, the Levant, and the Maghreb. The famed Egyptian actress Yusra (b. 1955) bears the name. Variants include Yusraa, Yusraah, and the masculine form Yusr/Yusri.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
How to Pronounce Yusra
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Variants of this name
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Names sharing the ي Ya influence
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Yusra
What does the name Yusra mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about Yusra? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Yusra? →
Is Yusra mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Yusra mean in Urdu?
Centuries of Urdu writing carried the Arabic letter readings forward, and Yusra carries them too. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Yusra a good Islamic name?
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Is Yusra a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Yusra in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. Each letter in Yusra, starting from Ya, is a structural principle. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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