Entry № 3363 · Arabic origin

Firdaws Firdaws — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FIR-daws /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Highest Paradise (Quran 18:107 + 23:11)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "highest paradise (quran 18:107 + 23:11)".

Firdaws is from the Arabic فردوس (Firdaws — paradise, garden, highest Heaven) — from Avestan pairidaēza (enclosure/garden) source of Greek paradeisos + Latin paradisus + English paradise. Firdaws is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage.

Highest Paradise (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

فردوس
Transliteration
Firdaws
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɪr.daʊs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Firdaws stands.

Firdaws 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.

Firdawss before her.

Real people

In fiction
Jannat al-Firdaws
Highest level of Paradise + Quran 18:107 + Quran 23:11 + Seven Heavens + Throne of God / Arsh + source of English paradise via Greek paradeisos + Persian Ferdowsi Shahnameh.
Quran

Names connected to Firdaws.

The number behind Firdaws.

8

The Visionary

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