Girls Names – Meanings & Origins

سِنِّيّ

Sanai is an Arabic name for girls that means praise.

سُنَن

Sanan is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means tradition, way of life.

ثَانِيَة

Noble, Admirable and Praiseworthy. Sanaya (not to be confused with Sanayah) is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means noble and honorable.It is derived from the S-N-A (flash of light, sublime, superb) root which is used in Chapter 24 of the Quran.

سَنَدَة

Sandah is an Arabic name for girls that means to depend upon, to refer to. It also means to go up a mountain

سُنَيْنَة

Saneenah is an Arabic name for girls that means one who was born on the same day as you.

زُبَيْدة

Dawn (the first appearance of light in the morning)

صَقْرَة

Saqrah is an Arabic name for girls that means falcon, hawk.

سَرَّاب

Saraab is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means mirage, which is a reflection of the blue sky in the desert that appears like water.

سَرايا

Sarayaa is an Arabic name for girls that means brigade, company, detachment, a part of an army.

سَرينا

Peace, Satisfactory, calm, cool.

سَرْوَر

Happiness, calm, satisfaction.

سَرَّاء

Sarraa is an Arabic name for girls that means ease and abundance, happiness, good times.

سِتْره

Sateerah is an Arabic name for girls that means modest, one who hides and covers [things].

سَوْدَة

Name of one of the honourable wives of the Holy prophet(peace be upon him).

صَوَالحة

Sawalihah is an Arabic name for girls that means pious, virtuous, good.

سَوْدَا

Daughter of Aasim bin Khalid bin Dirar al-Qarshiyah, she was a narrator of Hadith.

سَوْسَنة

Sawsanah is an Arabic name for girls that means lily (a type of flower).

سِتَار

Setareh is a Persian name for girls that means star, figuratively it means fortune, luck, and as an adjective it means beautiful.

شَاهِدة

One who bears witness, a deponent.

شَالَّة

Shaalah is an Arabic name for girls that means kindler, one who kindles fires.

شَعْبَان

Eighth lunar month. It is a month of religious significance for Muslims.

شَاذِلي

Shadleen is a Persian-Arabic name for girls made up of the Persian word Shad (happy) and the Arabic word leen (softness, delicateness), creating the meaning of happy and delicate, happy and soft-hearted.

شَفَق

Shafaq is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means sympathy, affection, pity, tenderness. It also means twilight, the redness that appears in the sky before the sun comes up and after it goes down.

شَغْف

Shaghf is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means strong, passionate love.

شَهْباء

Shahbaa is an Arabic name for girls that means gray. It is the nickname of the city of Aleppo in Syria. It also means year in which much snow falls.

شَاهِقة

High, towering, lofty, tall, fem. of Shahiq.

شهلاء

Having grey eyes with a shade of red, a species of Nacissus flower.

شَحْمة

Shahmah is an Arabic name for girls that means intelligent, sensible, rational, enduring.

شَهْرناز

The towns loved/favorite one.

شَمَّا

Lamp, Candle, Light, Flame.

شَمَّامَة

The fragrance of scent, perfume.

شُمَيِّل

Virtues, pl. of Shamila.

شُمَيْلة

Natural disposition, character quality, virtue, a young shoot, a bud.

شَامِخ

Another name for god, lofty, arrogant,

شُمَيْم

Fragrant breeze, Sweet smell, flavour.

شَمْسِيَّة

Beautiful, Shining Star, One and only

شَقَائِق

Shaqaaiq is an Arabic name for girls that means heavy rain. It also means full sibling, a sibling who is from the same parents as someone else.

شُقْرَة

Shaqeerah is an Arabic name for girls that means blonde, fair-skinned.

شَقْحَة

Shaqhah is an Arabic name for girls tat means blonde, fair-skinned.

شُقَرِيَّة

Shaqriyyah is an Arabic name for girls that means blonde, fair-skinned.

شَرَّاء

Sharaa is an Arabic name for girls that means extremely beautiful, gorgeous.

شَرِيفة

Noble, honoured,eminent, distinguished

شَاذّة

Shazah is an Arabic name for girls that means unique, special.

شَذْرَة

Shazrah is an Arabic name for girls that means piece of gold, lump of gold. It also means little pearl.

شَيْبَة

Infatuated, demented, loony.

شَيلِيّ

Sheela is a Persian name for girls that is the name of a river in the Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran.

شيلان

Shilan is a Kurdish and Persian name for girls that means jujube, a type of tree also known as red date, Chinese date. In classical Persian it means food, lunch, and in Turkic it means feast.

شُفَّافة

Shufafah is an Arabic name for girls that means translucent, transparent, clear.