103 Beautiful Muslim Names for Girls and What They Mean

Congratulations on your baby girl. Choosing from a naming tradition this deep can feel like standing in front of a very long menu, so we have set out 103 Muslim girl names with their meanings, origins, pronunciations, and a straight answer on how often American parents actually use each one.

Naming carries real weight in Islamic tradition. The Prophet Muhammad said, “You will be called on the Day of Resurrection by your names and the names of your fathers, so choose good names for yourselves,” a hadith recorded in Sunan Abi Dawud that many Muslim parents still keep in mind when they pick a name.

An estimated 3.45 million Muslims of all ages were living in the United States in 2017, about 1.1 percent of the population ⁽¹⁾, and Pew projects that Muslims will be the country’s second largest religious group by 2040. Plenty of families are weighing the same question you are.

Every popularity figure below comes from U.S. Social Security Administration birth records, which publish a name only once at least five babies have been given it in a year ⁽²⁾. Sixty-nine of these 103 names clear that line. Aaliyah is the most used of the group at 101st in 2025, while Rashida is the rarest that still charts at all, roughly one girl in 250,000.