Muslim Girl Names with Meanings

The most common thread in Muslim girls' naming runs through the Prophet Muhammad's own household: Fatima (his daughter), Khadija and Aisha (his wives), and Zainab (both a wife and a granddaughter) have been given to Muslim girls in every generation since, in almost every language the faith reached — Fatima becomes Fatma in Turkish, Fathima in South India, Patimat in the Caucasus. Maryam, the mother of Isa (Jesus) and the only woman named directly in the Qur'an, sits alongside them as one of the most-used names across the entire Muslim world.

Beyond the household names, a second large group is simply built from Arabic words for beauty, light and virtue: Amira (princess), Yasmin (jasmine), Noor and Nur (light), Hana (bliss), Layla (night), Sana (radiance), Iman (faith). Persian and Turkish naming layers on softer, nature-leaning picks — Anaya, Alina, Zara, Selma — which is why so many names on this page feel equally at home in Karachi, Istanbul and London; a name's spelling often changes at a border, but the meaning rarely does.

The names below are the girls across our Muslim-tradition catalogue, most common first, then split into modern and classic picks. If a spelling you know isn't showing, try the letter pages — Ayesha and Aisha, or Zoya and Zoia, are the same name written two ways.