Entry № 994 · Arabic origin

Asma Asma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHS-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Lofty (Abu Bakr's daughter, the 'Two-Belt')"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "lofty (abu bakr's daughter, the 'two-belt')".

Asma (أسماء) means "loftiness" or "more excellent" in Arabic. Asma bint Abu Bakr (c.

Lived to age 100; companion of the Prophet.

Lofty (Abu Bakr's daughter, the 'Two-Belt') — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

أسماء
Transliteration
Asmāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːs.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asma stands.

Asma does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Asmas before her.

Real people
Asma bint Abu Bakr
Companion of the Prophet.
c. 595 – 692
In fiction
Asma
Featured in early Islamic histories.

Names connected to Asma.

The number behind Asma.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asma reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.