Entry № 1265 · Arabic origin

Barakah Barakah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-rah-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Blessing (Quranic + Umm Barakah)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "blessing (quranic + umm barakah)".

Barakah is from the Arabic Barakah.

Blessing (Quranic + Umm Barakah) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

بركة
Transliteration
Barakah
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.rə.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Barakah stands.

Barakah 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.

Barakahs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Barakah / Umm Aiman
Nursemaid of Prophet Muhammad + Quranic blessings 32 references + Tabaraka Blessed is + Quran 67:1 + Sufi heritage
Islamic tradition

Names connected to Barakah.

The number behind Barakah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Barakah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.