Browse Names

Wail وائل m Arabic
Possibly means "refuge, shelter" in Arabic.

Waleed وليد m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic وليد (see Walid).

Walid وليد m Arabic
Means "newborn", derived from Arabic ولد (walada) meaning "to give birth". This was the name of the Umayyad caliph who conquered Spain in the 8th century.

Waqar وقار m Arabic
Means "majesty, dignity" in Arabic.

Wasi واسع m Arabic
Means "broad-minded, liberal, learned" in Arabic.

Wasim وسيم m Arabic
Means "handsome" in Arabic.

Wassim وسيم m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic وسيم (see Wasim).

Yacoub يعقوب m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic يعقوب (see Yaqub).

Yahya يحيى m Arabic, Turkish, Persian
Arabic, Turkish and Persian form of Yochanan (see John). This name honours John the Baptist, a prophet in Islam.

Yakub يعقوب m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic يعقوب (see Yaqub).

Yaqoob يعقوب m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic يعقوب (see Yaqub).

Yaqub يعقوب m Arabic
Arabic form of Ya'aqov (see Jacob).

Yaser ياسر m Persian, Turkish, Arabic
Persian and Turkish form of Yasir, as well as an alternate transcription of the Arabic name.

Yasin ياسين m Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish
From the Arabic letters ي (called ya) and س (called sin). These letters begin the 36th chapter of the Quran (surah Ya Sin).

Yasir ياسر m Arabic, Urdu
Means "to be rich", derived from Arabic يسر (yasira) meaning "to become easy". This was the name of an early Islamic martyr. It was also borne by Yasir Arafat (1929-2004), a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Yasser ياسر m Arabic, Persian
Alternate transcription of Arabic ياسر (see Yasir) or Persian یاسر (see Yaser).

Youcef يوسف m Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Arabic يوسف (see Yusuf) chiefly used in Algeria.

Younes يونس m Arabic (Maghrebi), Persian
North African and Persian form of Yunus.

Yousef يوسف m Persian, Arabic
Persian form of Yusuf, as well as an alternate Arabic transcription.

Youssef يوسف m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic يوسف (see Yusuf).

Yuhanna يوحنّا m Arabic
Arabic form of Greek Ioannes (see John).

Yunus يونس m Arabic, Turkish
Arabic and Turkish form of Jonah.

Yusef يوسف m Persian, Arabic
Alternate transcription of Persian یوسف (see Yousef) or Arabic يوسف (see Yusuf).

Yusha يوشع m Arabic
Arabic form of Yehoshu'a (see Joshua).

Yusuf يوسف m Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian, Pashto, Tajik, Uzbek, Bengali
Arabic form of Yosef (see Joseph), as well as the form used in several other languages.

Zaahir 1 زاهر m Arabic
Means "shining, brilliant, radiant" in Arabic, derived from the root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine".

Zaahir 2 ظاهر m Arabic
Means "clear, evident, manifest, outward" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition الظاهر (al-Zahir) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Zafar ظفر m Arabic, Urdu
Means "victory" in Arabic.

Zaheer ظهير, زاهر, ظاهر m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic ظهير or زاهر or ظاهر (see Zahir).

Zaher ظاهر m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic ظاهر (see Zaahir 2).

Zahi زاهي m Arabic
Means "beautiful, brilliant" in Arabic.

Zahid زاهد m Arabic, Urdu
Means "pious, devout" in Arabic.

Zahir ظهير, زاهر, ظاهر m Arabic, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from Arabic ظهير (zahir) meaning "helper, supporter". This can also be an alternate transcription of Arabic زاهر (see Zaahir 1) or ظاهر (see Zaahir 2).

Zaid زيد m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic زيد (see Zayd).

Zain زين m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic زين (see Zayn).

Zainuddin زين الدين m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic زين الدين (see Zayn ad-Din).

Zakaria زَكَرِيّا m Georgian, Malay, Indonesian, Arabic
Georgian, Malay and Indonesian form of Zechariah and Zacharias, as well as an alternate transcription of Arabic زَكَرِيّا (see Zakariyya).

Zakariya زَكَرِيّا m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic زَكَرِيّا (see Zakariyya).

Zakariyya زَكَرِيّا m Arabic
Arabic form of Zechariah and Zacharias.

Zaki زكيّ m Arabic
Means "pure" in Arabic.

Zaman زمان m Arabic, Urdu
Means "time, age, era" in Arabic.

Zamir ضمير m Arabic, Urdu, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Kazakh, Tajik
Means "mind, heart, conscience" in Arabic.

Zawar زوار m Arabic, Urdu
Means "pilgrim, visitor" in Arabic.

Zayd زيد m Arabic
Derived from Arabic زاد (zada) meaning "to increase". This was the name of a slave who became the adopted son of the Prophet Muhammad.

Zayn زين m Arabic
Means "beauty, grace" in Arabic. This was the name of a son of Husayn ibn Ali. Shia Muslims consider him to be the fourth imam.... [more]

Zayn ad-Din زين الدين m Arabic
Means "beauty of religion", from Arabic زين (zayn) meaning "beauty" combined with دين (din) meaning "religion, faith".

Zia ضياء m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic ضياء (see Ziya).

Ziad زياد m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic زياد (see Ziyad).

Ziauddin ضياء الدين m Arabic, Urdu
Alternate transcription of Arabic ضياء الدين (see Ziya ad-Din), as well as the usual Urdu transcription.

Zinedine زين الدين m Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Arabic زين الدين (see Zayn ad-Din) chiefly used in North Africa. A famous bearer is the French soccer player Zinedine Zidane (1972-), who was born to Algerian parents.

Ziya ضياء m Arabic, Turkish
Derived from Arabic ضياء (diya) meaning "splendour, light, glow". This was the name of a 14th-century Islamic Indian historian.

Ziya ad-Din ضياء الدين m Arabic
Means "splendour of religion" from Arabic ضياء (diya) meaning "splendour, light, glow" combined with دين (din) meaning "religion, faith".

Ziya al-Din ضياء الدين m Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic ضياء الدين (see Ziya ad-Din).

Ziyad زياد m Arabic
Means "growth" in Arabic.

Ziya ur-Rahman ضياء الرحمٰن m Arabic
Means "splendour of the merciful" from Arabic ضياء (diya) meaning "splendour, light, glow" combined with رحمن (rahman) meaning "merciful".

Zubair زبير m Arabic, Urdu
Derived from Arabic زبر (zubar) meaning "iron". Zubair ibn al-Awwam was a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim military commander.

Zulfaqar ذو الفقار m Arabic, Urdu
Variant of Zulfiqar.

Zulfikar ذو الفقار m Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian
Alternate transcription of Arabic/Urdu ذو الفقار (see Zulfiqar), as well as the Indonesian form.

Zulfiqar ذو الفقار m Arabic, Urdu
From Arabic ذو الفقار (Dhu al-Faqar) interpreted as meaning "cleaver of the spine", derived from ذو (dhu) meaning "possessor, holder" and فقار (faqar) meaning "spine, vertebra". This was the name of the Prophet Muhammad's sword, also used by his son-in-law Ali.