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Browse girl names that begin with the letter S.

This page brings together girl names starting with S, making it easier to compare options by first letter and meaning.

1039 names found

Saaiha

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Saaiha is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means flowing water, traveler for the sake of Allah, one who fasts often. It is derived from the S-Y-H6 root which is used in a number of places in teh Quran.

Saamiah

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Saamiah can refer to two different Arabic names: 1. It is an Arabic name for girls that means good listener, understanding, obedient. It can also be written as Saamiah. 2. It is an Arabic name for girls that means high in status, elevated, high in rank. It is the feminine version of Sami. Both names are indirect Quran

Safeeya

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Virtuous, Pious, God-Fearing and Devoted to Allah. Safeeya is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means pure, chosen, virtuous. Safeeya is derived from the SAD-F-A root which is used in many places in the Quran. It is a beloved name among Muslims due to its belonging to three well-known Muslim women.

Sahabah

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Sahabah is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means companions. It is the plural of Sahabi and in Islamic literature it is used with the meaning of companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of God upon him), which refers to Muslims who met the Prophet.

Saharaat

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Saharaat is an Arabic name for girls that means taking care of a person throughout the night, observing a vigil. It is a plural name, thus it refers to multiple instances of doing these things.

Sahrah

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Sahrah is an Arabic name for girls that means an act of staying up at night, vigil, especially to stay up late at night to take care of a child or sick person.

Sairan

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Sairan is a Persian and Kurdish name for girls. In Persian in means trip, expedition, sightseeing-trip, while in Kurdish it has similar meanings but the most common meaning is picnic.

Sajdaa

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Sajdaa is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means one who prostates to Allah often, one who worships Allah devoutly. It is the feminine form of the name Asjad (similar to Ahmad [boy name] and Hamda [girl name], which are synonyms). It is derived from the S-J-D root which is used in many places in the Quran.

Salawaat

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Salawaat is an Arabic name for girls that is the plural of Salaat, which means formal prayer, a type of prayer with set times and methods of performing.

Salitaa

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Salitaa is an Arabic name for girls that means tall. It also means eloquent. It is a variant of Salitah, which is the feminine form of Saleet.

Salsabilah

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Salsabilah is an Arabic name for girls that means a drink that is easy and enjoyable to drink. It is also the feminine form of Salsabil, which is the name of a fountain/spring in Paradise.

Samaara

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Samaara is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means one who converses under moonlight, girl with tan skin, color of a moonlit desert. Samaara is derived from the S-M-R root which is used in the Quran in verse 23:67:

Sammarah

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Sammarah is an Arabic name for girls that means good friend, literally meaning one who continues conversation long into the night. It is the feminine form of Sammar.

Sanabel

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Sanabel is a direct Quranic name for girls that means plant ears, plant spikes, as in ears of wheat, ears of corn (the part of the cereal plant that holds the seeds. Sanabel is the plural of Sonbol and Sonbula. Sonbula is mentioned in verse 2:261 of the Quran.

Sanaya

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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.

Saraab

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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.

Sattarah

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Sattarah is an Arabic name for girls that means one who covers, one who hides the faults of others and does not gossip about them. It is the feminine form of Sattar.

Sauba

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Sauba (also written with a Th as in Thauba) is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means reward for good deeds, something that God gives you in reward for a good thing you do. It is synonymous with Suwaiba. It is derived from the TH-W-B root which is used in many places in the Quran.

Sawab

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Sawab is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means reward. If pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable, the meaning becomes one who repents often, one who returns to God often.

Saya

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Saya is a Kurdish name for girls that means shade, shadow, and figuratively it means care, attention. It is a variant of the Persian word Sayeh.

Saymarah

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Saymarah is an Arabic name for girls that means good friend (literally one who continues conversation long into the night), one who has olive-colored skin.

Semaara

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Semaara is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means conversation during the moonlit nights of the desert, figuratively meaning conversation between good friends. Semaara is derived from the S-M-R root which is used in the Quran in verse 23:67:

Shadleen

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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.

Shafaq

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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.

Shahbaa

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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.

Shahrbanu

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Shahrbanu is a Persian name for girls that means wife of a king. It was the name of the daughter of the last Sassanian king, before the Persian empire fell to the Islamic armies, and it said that she married Hussain, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.

Shahrzad

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Shahrzad is a Persian name for girls that means cosmopolitan (born in and grown up in a city). It is the name of the main character in 1001 Nights.

Sheeva

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Sheeva is a Persian name for girls that means eloquent, expressive, vivid. It can also mean way, method, and in classical Persian it means charm, attraction.

Shemshad

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Shemshad is a Persian name for girls that means boxwood, an evergreen shrub. In classical literary Persian it is used figuratively to mean beloved one.

Shilan

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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.

Shokufa

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Shokufeh is a Persian name for girls that means tree flower, flowers that appear on trees in spring, especially fruit-bearing trees like apples.

Shuraa

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Shura is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means consultation, council. It is the name of chapter 42 of the Quran. It can also be a phonetic variant of Shurah, in which case it means view, honeycomb cell.

Siba

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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.

Siranoush

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Siranoush is a Persian name for girls that means eternally content, eternally pleased. It is formed from the words Sir (content, satisfied) and anoush (eternal, immortal).

Sireen

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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

Siyam

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Siyam is a direct Quranic name for boys and girls that means fasting (to refrain from eating for a period of time), which is a practice followed by Muslims throughout the month of Ramadan. The word Siyam is used nine times in the Quran.

Sonbula

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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.

Sounai

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Sounai is a Persian name for girls that means one who prays, one who supplicates. In Turkish it means end of the month (according to a Persian source).

Subail

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Subail is an Arabic name for boys and less commonly for girls that means pouring rain. It also means ear, spike, the part of a cereal plant (like corn) from which the seeds come out.

Suffah

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Suffah is an Arabic name for girls that means courtyard, square, plaza. It was the name of a place in the city of Medina where the the poor and migrants from Mecca took refuge and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah upon him) would look after them.

Suharaat

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Suharaat is an Arabic name for girls that means to take care of, to watch over, especially to stay up late at night to take care of a child or sick person.

Suhrah

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Suhrah is an Arabic name for girls that means one who takes care of, to one who watches over someone, especially one who stays up late at night to take care of a child or sick person.

Sujaydah

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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.

Sumama

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Sumama, also written as Thumama, is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means salvation, to be rescued. It is also the name of a genus of plants called Panicum, among these plants are tumbleweed and witchgrass. Sumama is the name of many (male) Sahabah (RA)

Suwaiba

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Suwaiba (also written with a Th as in Thuwaibah) is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means reward for good deeds, something that God gives you in reward for a good thing you do. It is derived from the TH-W-B root which is used in many places in the Quran.

Suwaida

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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.