Entry № 4422 · Arabic origin

Ibtisam Ibtisam — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ib-tee-SAHM /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Smile"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "smile".

Ibtisam is from the Arabic ابتسام (Ibtisām — smile, smiling) — from Arabic basama (to smile). Ibtisam is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Arab heritage.

Smile — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ابتسام
Transliteration
Ibtisām
Pronunciation
/ ɪb.tiːˈsɑːm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ibtisam stands.

Ibtisam 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.

Ibtisams before her.

Real people
Ibtisam Barakat
Palestinian-American poet + Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood 2007 + Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine 2016 + pan-Palestinian + Arab-American literary heritage.
born 1963
In fiction
Prophet Muhammad's smile
Hadith narrative Prophet Muhammad habitually smiling + Smiling at your brother is a charity Sahih Bukhari + Tirmidhi 1956 + pan-Islamic ethical heritage.
Hadith

Names connected to Ibtisam.

The number behind Ibtisam.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ibtisam reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.