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Browse Muslim and Quranic baby names beginning with the letter S.

Names beginning with S can include modern names, traditional Islamic names and Quranic-inspired choices. This A–Z page makes it easier to browse them all in one place.

1918 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

Sabalan

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Sabalan is a Persian name for boys that is the name of a mountain range in north-western Iran. We cannot find information on the origin of the name, but since it is a common name and the meaning is not commonly known, it is acceptable to use it.

Sabbaq

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Sabbaq is an Arabic name for boys that means on who races with others and gets ahead of them, one who is superior to others in goodness and virtue.

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.

Saheer

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Saheer is an Arabic name for boys that means one who takes care of someone, especially one who stays up at night to take care of a child or sick person.

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.

Salahaddin

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Salahaddin is an Arabic name for boys that means uprightness of the faith, goodness of the faith, what is good for the faith, a person who benefits and guides the Muslims.

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.

Samran

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Samran is an Arabic name for boys that means one who continues conversation long into the night (figuratively meaning good friend), one who has olive-colored skin.

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.

Sanwan

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Sanwan is an Arabic name for boys that means a little water in the mountain according to the Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia, which may mean a small mountain stream, lake or pool.

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:

Shaddan

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Shaddan is an Arabic name for boys that means grown antelope, an antelope (a type of animal that looks like a deer or gazelle) that is old enough to no longer need the care of its mother.

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.

Shadli

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Shadli is a Turkish-Persian name for boys that means happy. Not to be confused with Shadili/Shazili, which means one from the village of Shadhilah in Egypt, from which the name of a Sufi group comes.

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.

Shahnam

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Shahnam is a Persian name for boys that means one who has a kingly name, one who has a royal name, figuratively meaning one who has a good name, one who has a good reputation.

Shahou

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Shahou is a Persian name for boys that means the best and most valuable pearl. It is the name of a mountain in the Kermanshah province in Western Iran that is part of the Zagros range.

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.

Shahsavar

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Shahsavar is a Persian name for boys that means royal knight, king of knights, figuratively meaning one who is extremely accomplished and respected.

Shawal

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Shawal is an Arabic name for boys that means great, high in status, elevated. It is also the name of the month that comes after Ramadan.

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.

Shuhrokh

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Shuhrokh is a Persian name for boys that means one who has the face of a king, one who has a royal complexion, figuratively meaning extremely handsome.

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.

Shuraim

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Shuraim is an Arabic name for boys that has two related meanings. One of them is little gulf, little bay, little inlet, being the diminutive form of Sharm (gulf, bay, inlet). It can also mean little one whose lips are chapped/cracked, being the diminutive form of the Arabic word Ashram (not related to the Indian word)

Siamak

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Siamak is a Persian name for boys that means one who has black hair, it is the name of a mythical Persian prince, and the name of a mythical hero from the kingdom of Turan.

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.

Simab

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Simab is a Persian name for boys and girls that means mercury, the liquid metal element. In ancient times it was considered to have healing and beautifying powers, but in modern times it has been discovered to be a highly toxic and dangerous chemical.

Sinwan

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Sinwan is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means multiple trees that grow from the same root, two palm trees having the same root.

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

Sirous

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It's a Persian name for boys. It is the Persianized form of the Western name Cyrus, which itself is from the Persian name Kurosh, which is the name of the founder of the Achaemenid Empire (the first Persian empire). it is an ancient name with unknown origin and is commonly used, it is acceptable for Muslims to use.

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.

Sobaan

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Sobaan is an indirect Quranic name for boys that means to return to Allah, to repent. It is derived from the TH-W-B root (reward, repentance, return, resort) which is used in many places in the Quran.

Sommar

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Sommar is an Arabic name for boys that means one who continues conversation long into the night, figuratively meaning good friend. It is the plural of Saamer.

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.

Soran

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Soran is a Kurdish name for boys. It is the name of a region of northern Iraq and one of the main Kurdish dialetcs (Sorani) is attributed to it.

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.

Sudain

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It's an Arabic name for boys. It is the diminutive form of Sadn, which means maintainer of the Kaaba, one of the people whose job is to open, close, clean, clothe and maintain the Kaaba, which is the cubic building in the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Sudair

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Sudair is an Arabic name for boys that is the diminutive form of Sidr, which is a type of shrub known as the alder buckthorn in English.

Sudairi

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Sudairi is an Arabic name for boys that means alder buckthorn (a type of tree). It is the attributive form of Sudair, which is the diminutive form of Sidr.

Sudais

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Sudais is an Arabic and indirect Quranic name that means sixth, one out of six. It is the last name of a famous Quran reciter, Shaikh Abdurrahman as-Sudais, and for this reason some people like to use it for their children. Sudais is derived from the S-D-S (six) root which is used at least twice in the Quran.

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.

Sulaikan

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Sulaikan is an Arabic name for boys that means one who is following a path, one who is one the path of growth and spirituality, one who is a devoted worshiper.

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.