A widespread name with roots in many languages, Aya is given to girls. In Arabic it is a Quranic name derived from the word which means “verse”. It is not only “Quranic verse”, but holds the connotations of “miracle” and “existence of God”.
A name given to girls, Amal is the Arabic word for “hope”. The word itself is beautiful as it is one of the only ones in the Arabic language to mean this.
Meaning “transcendent”, Sami is a name given to boys. It’s popular throughout the world with variants in Germanic languages as it is derived from Samuel.
Dalia is a name with roots in Arabic and Hebrew. In Arabic, it stems from the word for grapevine or vineyard and is given to girls. What makes it special is its lyrical quality and softness (pronounced Da-Lya).
Pronounced Ka-Reem, the name means generous and is given to boys. It is both a common word in the Arabic language and a deeply meaningful Islamic name. It is one of the 99 “names” which were revealed to humanity as adjectives used to describe God.
Perhaps one of the most beautiful names in the Arabic language, Dounia means “the world” and is given to girls. Pronounced Du-Nya, the names takes on deep philosophical meaning, as in the Islamic names Al Hayat Al Dounia comes to mean finite life. This makes the name Dounia a description of what it is to be a human being.
Another one of the “Blessed names of God”, Hadi means “who gifts” and is a name given to boys. The connotation being here that God has gifted religion onto the world.
Kamal is a boy’s name meaning perfection, beauty and completion. It is derived from the word Kamal-Al Din which means the perfection of religion. The meaning perfection of course cannot escape its deep and philosophical connotation.
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