Entry № 4377 · Arabic origin

Huda Huda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOO-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Guidance (Egyptian feminist Huda Sha'arawi)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "guidance (egyptian feminist huda sha'arawi)".

Huda (هدى) is the Arabic word for "guidance" — also a title of the Quran. Huda Sha'arawi (1879-1947) was the founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union (1923) and a figure of Arab feminism. Co-founded the first Egyptian women's nationalist movement.

Guidance (Egyptian feminist Huda Sha'arawi) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

هدى
Transliteration
Hudā
Pronunciation
/ ˈhuː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Huda stands.

Huda 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.

Hudas before her.

Real people
Huda Sha'arawi
Egyptian feminist pioneer.
1879 – 1947
In fiction
Huda
Harem Years.
1986 memoir

Names connected to Huda.

The number behind Huda.

7

The Seeker

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