Entry № 3225 · Arabic origin

Falak Falak — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FAH-lak /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Celestial sphere / sky (Surah Al-Falaq 113)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "celestial sphere / sky (surah al-falaq 113)".

Falak is from the Arabic فلك (Falak — celestial sphere, sky, orbit). Falak is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Islamic cosmological heritage.

Celestial sphere / sky (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

فلك
Transliteration
Falak
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɑː.lək /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Falak stands.

Falak 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.

Falaks before her.

Real people

In fiction
Surah Al-Falaq / ilm al-falak
Quran 21:33 + 36:40 + Surah 113 Al-Falaq 5 verses + Mu'awwidhatayn + I seek refuge in the Lord of Daybreak + ilm al-falak Islamic Golden Age astronomy + Maragheh Observatory 1259 CE + Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.
Quran + Islamic astronomy

Names connected to Falak.

The number behind Falak.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Falak reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.