Urdu Girl Names, Shown in Their Own Script
Urdu girl names with the Urdu script alongside the meaning — a confluence of Arabic religious vocabulary and Persian poetic imagery.
Urdu naming is a confluence rather than a single source: an Arabic religious layer, a Persian poetic layer, and a living tradition of new coinage. A romanised spelling is only half the name, which is why this library records the script wherever it holds it.
The Urdu names here, each with its full entry:
- Afsaneh — A legend, fairy tale
- Akhtar — Star (Begum Akhtar, Queen of Ghazal)
- Amal — Hope (Amal Clooney, international human rights lawye
- Anahita — Immaculate, unstained
- Asma — Lofty (Abu Bakr's daughter, the 'Two-Belt')
- Ayesha — Living (Aisha wife of Prophet)
- Azra — Pure / virgin (Bosnian + iconic Yugoslav song)
- Barakah — Blessing (Quranic + Umm Barakah)
- Darya — Sea
- Dilara — Beloved (Ottoman heritage + Turkish popular)
- Farzana — Wise / intelligent (South Asian heritage)
- Firoza — Turquoise
- Gohar — Jewel / gem (Gohar Shad Mughal queen)
- Gulnar — Pomegranate flower
- Hafsa — Young lioness, gatherer
- Hazrat Mahal — Begum who led 1857 rebellion in Awadh
- Iram — Garden of paradise
- Jamila — Beautiful (Swahili heritage)
- Karima — Generous, noble
- Khushbu — Fragrance (Khushbu Sundar - Tamil cinema + politicia
- Khushi — Happiness, joy
- Laleh — Tulip
- Mahira — Skilled / expert (Mahira Khan Pakistani actress)
- Mahtab — Moonlight
- Mehek — Fragrance, scent
- Mehreen — Sun-like / iconic Pakistani filmmaker
- Minal — Minal Khan - Pakistani actress + Aiman's twin sister
- Nargis — Daffodil / narcissus (Nargis, 1957 Mother India)
- Nasreen — Wild rose
- Nur — Light (Surah An-Nur + 99 Names of Allah)
- Parveen — Pleiades star cluster (Parveen Shakir Urdu poet)
- Rabia — Spring (the Sufi mystic)
- Rahma — Mercy (Quran Bismillah + Surah Ar-Rahman)
- Reshma — Silk (Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code founder)
- Ruqayya — Spell / charm (Ruqayya bint Muhammad daughter of Pro
- Safiya — Pure / chosen (Safiyya bint Huyayy wife of Prophet M
- Samira — Companion in evening conversation (Samira Wiley, OIT
- Setareh — Star
- Shabana — Nocturnal / lovely (Shabana Azmi, 5 National Film Aw
- Shabnam — Morning dew
Where a popular modern name has no settled classical etymology, the entry says so plainly instead of repeating an invented gloss — that honesty is the point of this site.