Entry № 3224 · Arabic origin

Fajr Fajr — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Dawn (Salat al-Fajr)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "dawn (salat al-fajr)".

Fajr is from the Arabic Fajr.

Dawn (Salat al-Fajr) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

فجر
Transliteration
Fajr
Pronunciation
/ ˈfædʒr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fajr stands.

Fajr 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.

Fajrs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Surah 89 / Salat al-Fajr
Quranic chapter 89 By the dawn and ten nights + Salat al-Fajr first of five daily prayers + Fajr Decade Iranian Revolution 1979
Quran + Islam

Names connected to Fajr.

The number behind Fajr.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fajr reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.