Browse Names - Behind the Name

Aditya m Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali, Indonesian
Means "belonging to Aditi" in Sanskrit. This is a name for the seven (or more) Hindu gods who are the children of Aditi. It is also another name for the sun god Surya.

Afifah f Arabic, Indonesian, Malay
Alternate transcription of Arabic عفيفة (see Afifa), as well as the usual Indonesian and Malay form.

Aisyah f Indonesian, Malay
Indonesian and Malay form of Aisha.

Akhmad m Chechen, Ingush, Indonesian
Chechen, Ingush and Indonesian form of Ahmad.

Aminah f Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Alternate transcription of Arabic Amina 1 or Amina 2, as well as the usual form in Malay and Indonesian.

Annisa f Indonesian
Indonesian feminine form of Anis. It could also be inspired by the chapter an-Nisa in the Quran (see Nisa).

Batari f Indonesian
Means "goddess" in Indonesian, derived from the Sanskrit noble title भट्टारी (bhaṭṭārī) meaning "noble lady".

Burhan m Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian
Means "proof" in Arabic.

Cahaya m & f Indonesian, Malay
Means "light" in Malay and Indonesian, ultimately from Sanskrit छाया (chāyā).

Danial m Persian, Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Alternate transcription of Persian دانیال or Arabic دانيال (see Daniyal), as well as the usual Malay and Indonesian form.

Endang f Indonesian
Means "ascetic woman, hermitess" in Indonesian.

Faisal m Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Malay, Indonesian
Alternate transcription of Arabic فيصل (see Faysal), as well as the form in several other languages.

Farhan m Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Malay, Indonesian
Means "happy, cheerful" in Arabic, a derivative of فرح (fariḥa) meaning "to be happy".

Farida f Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Bengali, Tatar, Bashkir
Feminine form of Farid.

Guntur m Indonesian
Means "thunder" in Indonesian.

Hayati 2 f Malay, Indonesian
Means "my life" in Malay and Indonesian, from Arabic حياة (ḥayāh) meaning "life".

Ismail m Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Urdu, Bengali, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chechen, Avar, Albanian, Dhivehi
Arabic form of Ishmael, also used in several other languages. According to the Quran and Islamic tradition Ismail was a prophet and the founder of the Arab people.

Krisna m Indonesian
Indonesian form of Krishna.

Kusuma m & f Indonesian
Derived from Sanskrit कुसुम (kusuma) meaning "flower".

Mahmud m Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Means "praised" in Arabic, from the same root as Muhammad. This was the name of the first Muslim ruler of India (11th century). It was also borne by two Ottoman sultans.

Mansur m Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Means "victorious, supported" in Arabic, a derivative of نصر (naṣara) meaning "to help, to aid". Abu Jafar al-Mansur was an 8th-century Abbasid caliph and the founder of the city of Baghdad.

Maryam f Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Indonesian, Bashkir, Tatar
Arabic form of Miryam (see Mary) appearing in the Quran. It is also the form used in several other languages. In Iran it is also the name of a flower, the tuberose, which is named after the Virgin Mary.

Melati f Indonesian, Malay
Means "jasmine flower" in Malay and Indonesian, ultimately from Sanskrit मालती (mālatī).

Muslim m Arabic, Urdu, Kazakh, Indonesian, Malay
Name for a follower of Islam, ultimately from Arabic أسْلم (ʾaslama) meaning "to surrender, to submit".

Rahman m Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Indonesian, Malay, Bengali
Means "merciful" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition الرحمٰن (al-Raḥmān) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Ridwan m Arabic, Indonesian
Means "consent, approval" in Arabic, a derivative of the root رضي (raḍiya) meaning "to be satisfied, to be content".

Ruslan m Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Circassian, Indonesian, Malay
Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Rustam m Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik, Indonesian
Form of Rostam in various languages.

Saiful m Arabic, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
First part of compound Arabic names beginning with سيف ال (Sayf al) meaning "sword of the" (such as Sayf ad-Din).

Salman m Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Means "safe" in Arabic, a derivative of سلم (salima) meaning "to be safe".

Slamet m Indonesian, Javanese
Means "safe, secure" in Javanese, derived from Arabic سلامة (salāma), a derivative of the root سلم (salima) meaning "to be safe".

Sultan m & f Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Urdu, Bengali, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Avar, Indonesian
Means "ruler, king, sultan" in Arabic. In the Arab world this name is typically masculine, but Turkey it is given to both boys and girls.

Susila m Indonesian
Indonesian form of Sushila.

Taufik m Indonesian
Indonesian form of Tawfiq.

Wibowo m Indonesian
From Indonesian wibawa meaning "authority, power", ultimately from Sanskrit विभव (vibhava).

Zainab f Arabic, Urdu, Hausa, Malay, Indonesian
Alternate transcription of Arabic زينب (see Zaynab), as well as the usual form in several languages.

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