Arabic Girl Names

Arabic-rooted names appear in many communities and can have several established Latin-letter spellings. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1950.

5,338#36
Down 12 rank positions in five years
2019

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1976.

2,607#101
Down 36 rank positions in five years
2012

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,193#259
Down 54 rank positions in five years
2010

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1884.

3,089#80
Up 38 rank positions in five years
2025

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1884.

755#413
Down 186 rank positions in five years
2008

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1919.

931#330
Up 12 rank positions in five years
2006

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1950.

910#337
Up 199 rank positions in five years
1977

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1963.

2,168#132
Up 151 rank positions in five years
2024

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1949.

269#959
Up 21 rank positions in five years
2006

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1943.

970#315
Up 15 rank positions in five years
2017

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1961.

265#965
Down 383 rank positions in five years
2011

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1915.

499#587
Down 10 rank positions in five years
2019

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1946.

869#351
Up 156 rank positions in five years
2025

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1951.

196#1,185
Up 298 rank positions in five years
1999

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1968.

168#1,328
Down 116 rank positions in five years
1977

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1976.

603#490
Up 56 rank positions in five years
2024

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1973.

562#540
Up 52 rank positions in five years
2025

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1916.

503#585
Up 9 rank positions in five years
2024

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1962.

122#1,686
Up 71 rank positions in five years
1977

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1979.

435#659
Up 228 rank positions in five years
2025

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1968.

—Unranked
—
1991

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1975.

179#1,254
Down 469 rank positions in five years
2014

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1981.

131#1,602
Down 556 rank positions in five years
2010

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1950.

156#1,396
Up 73 rank positions in five years
2016

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1998.

468#625
Up 192 rank positions in five years
2023

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1960.

164#1,350
Up 76 rank positions in five years
2012

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1965.

200#1,160
Down 82 rank positions in five years
2017

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1965.

258#982
Up 286 rank positions in five years
2025

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1975.

91#2,072
Down 208 rank positions in five years
1996

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1966.

64#2,711
Down 620 rank positions in five years
1996

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1898.

125#1,660
Down 294 rank positions in five years
2010

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1982.

144#1,492
Up 297 rank positions in five years
2016

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1976.

117#1,739
Up 466 rank positions in five years
2025

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1977.

40#3,715
Down 534 rank positions in five years
2016

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1967.

39#3,812
Up 1,611 rank positions in five years
2021

Arabic-rooted name; in U.S. records from 2000.

48#3,277
Up 305 rank positions in five years
2022

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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