Entry № 2672 · Arabic origin

Duha Duha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOO-hah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Morning light (Surah 93)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "morning light (surah 93)".

Duha is from the Arabic Ḍuḥā. Arabic Ḍuḥā forenoon morning light + Surah 93 Adh-Dhuḥā Quranic chapter 11 verses + revealed in Mecca + By the morning light and by the night when it grows still: Your Lord has not forsaken you nor does He hate you + revealed as consolation to Prophet Muhammad + Salat al-Ḍuḥā voluntary Islamic prayer.

Morning light (Surah 93) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ضحى
Transliteration
Ḍuḥā
Pronunciation
/ ˈduː.hə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Duha stands.

Duha 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.

Duhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Surah 93 / Adh-Dhuḥā
Quranic chapter 93 + By the morning light + revealed to Prophet Muhammad as consolation + Salat al-Ḍuḥā voluntary prayer
Quran

Names connected to Duha.

The number behind Duha.

7

The Seeker

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