Girls Names – Meanings & Origins

شَلَّاخة

Shulaikhah is an Arabic name for girls that means root, origin. It also means good-looking.

شَقُّور

Shuqur is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means blondness, fairness of the skin.

شُرَفاء

Shurafaa is an Arabic name for girls that means honorable, high in status.

صَعْبَة

Siba is an indirect Quranic name for boys and girls that means emotion, enthusiasm, youthfulness, childhood. It is derived from the SAD-B-B Quranic root, which has various meanings, such as softness, youthfulness and pouring of water.

سَرَّاج

Lamp, light, the sun, candle.

سيرين

Wife of Prophets companion Hassan ibn Thabit, She was the daughter of Ibn Abdullah Ibn Masood and a narrator of Hadith from the Prophet (S.A.W), another narrator of Hadith by the same name was the sister of Mariah al-Qabtiyah, al-Maqooqus of Egyp

سَوِيّ

Siwa is an Arabic name for girls that means land that is covered with sand, flat land with soft sand.

سِيَاق

Siyaq is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means context, style of speaking, articulation. It also means dowry.

سُنْبُلَة

Sonbula is a direct Quranic name for girls that means plant ear, plant spike, as in ear of wheat, ear of corn (the part of the cereal plant that holds the seeds. Sonbula is mentioned in verse 2:261 of the Quran.

سُونيا

Pretty, very beautiful, Intelligence, Intellect, Smart.

سوريا

Pleiades (Cluster of seven brilliant stars in Taurus)

سُوزَان

Souzan is a Persian name for girls that means passionate, enthusiastic. Its literal meaning is on fire, extremely hot.

سُعَاد

happiness, good fortune

صَدُور

Sudur is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means hearts. Its literal meaning is chests. It is used 34 times in the Quran.

سُهَى

Suha is a celestial name representing the faint, hidden star in the constellation Ursa Major. It evokes a sense of quiet grace, elusive beauty, and a gentle, guiding light.

سُهَاد

Suhad is an Arabic name for girls that means to stay up the night, insomnia.

سُهَيْر

Alert, Wakeful and Unsleeping

سُجَيْدة

Sujaydah is an Arabic name for girls that means one who prostrates often, one who humbles herself before God. It is the diminutive form of Sajeedah.

سُكَيْنَة

Diminutive of Sakina, calmness, A young daughter of Imam Hussain who was martyred.

صَقْر

Sukkar is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means sugar. It also refers to a type of sweet white grape.

سُكْنَة

Suknah is an Arabic name for girls that means tranquility, serenity.

سَكْنِيَّة

Sukniyyah is an Arabic name for girls that means tranquil, serene.

سُلَيِّمَة

Diminutive of Salma, beloved.

سُلْطَان

Queen, woman ruler, wife of a Sultan,Leader, ruler, royalty, fem. of Sultan.

سُلْوَان

Sulwan is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means comfort, consolation, solace.

سُمَيْرَاء

Of a brownish colour, Name of a Sahabiyyah(RA).

سُمَيِّح

First martyr of Islam

سُنْدُس

The dress of Paradise.

صرْمَة

Surma is a Kurdish name for girls that means kohl, a black substance used in cosmetics. It is a variant of the Persian name Sormeh.

سُوَيَدا

Suwaida is an indirect Quranic name for girls. It is a synonym of Sawdah, which means area of land with many palm trees. It is derived from the S-W-D root (blackness, large number of palm trees) which is used in a number of places in the Quran.

ثُوَيْبَة

Name of one of the wet-nurses of the Prophet PBUH.

تَبَارَك

Tabarruk is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means to become blessed, to be raised in status.

طَفَلِي

Tafli is an Arabic name for boys and girls means soft and delicate, gentle.

تَهَانِي

Tahani is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means congratulations, to congratulate someone for something good that has happened to them.

تَحِيَّة

Greeting, salutation, cheer

تَحْرِير

Tahrir is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means liberation, to free someone/something.

تَحْسِين

Acclaim, appreciation

تَمَسُّك

Tamassuk is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means adherence, hanging on, keeping close to.

تَمْهِيد

Tamheed is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means to facilitate, to make easy, to prepare, to put in order. It is used in the Quran in verse 74:14.

تَمْثِيل

Example, allegory, parable.

تَقَدُّم

Taqadum is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means progress, advance, increase in rank and status.

تَرْحِيب

Tarheeb is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means to welcome. It also means spaciousness, vastness.

طَرُوب

Lively, gleeful, merry.

تَرْقِيَة

Tarqiyah is an Arabic name for girls that means ascension, to raise upwards physically or in rank and status.

تَوْبَات

Tawbaat is an Arabic name for girls that means repentance, it is the plural of Tawbah.

تَوْحِيد

one who say la ilaha illa allah

طَوْلَة

Tawlah is an Arabic name for girls that means elevation, raised area of land.

تَوَدّ

Tawwad is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means affection, love.