Arabic Baby Names & Meanings

Choosing your baby's name is one of the best moments of waiting 🤍
معاني الأسماء puts more than 24,000 Arabic and Muslim names for boys and girls in your pocket, each with its meaning, origin and vowel marks, in a light app that works without internet.

⚠️ The app is in Arabic. You can search in English letters: type "Omar", "Aisha" or "Layan" and the name comes up.

Baby names with meanings
• 16,000+ boy names, 7,000+ girl names and 700+ names for both
• A clear meaning for every name, and a second meaning for thousands
• The origin of each name: mostly Arabic, also Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, Latin and more than 50 others
• Vowel marks (tashkeel) on most names, so you know how to say them
• English spellings for thousands of names, like Mohammed, Noor, Layan

Names from the Quran and names of the Companions
• Names of the prophets and names mentioned in the Holy Quran, like Maryam, Yahya, Yousef, Ibrahim, Luqman
• Names of the Sahaba, like Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, Ali, Aisha, Khadija

Easy search
• Write the name the way you know it: with or without hamza, with ة or ه, with or without vowel marks
• Or search in English letters
• An A–Z letter index to browse names by their first letter
• Show only boy names or only girl names with one tap

Fun to browse
• Swipe left or right to go from one name to the next
• The dice 🎲 suggests a random name when you can't decide
• Save the names you like to Favorites
• Share a name and its meaning with family on WhatsApp and Telegram

Can't find a name?
No dictionary has every name, so we added "Request a name": write the name you didn't find and vote on others' requests, so we know which names to add first.

Works offline 📴
All names and meanings are inside the app, at home, in the hospital or on the road. Only name requests, voting and sharing need a connection.

No account, no sign-up. Free.

For every mom and dad expecting a baby, and for anyone curious what their name means. We wish you a happy choice 🤍