Entry № 5153 · Arabic origin

Kalimah Kalimah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-LEE-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Word / declaration of faith"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "word / declaration of faith".

Kalimah is from the Arabic Kalima.

Word / declaration of faith — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

كلمة

Transliteration: Kalima
Pronunciation: / kəˈliː.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Kalimah stands.

Kalimah 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.

Namesakes

Kalimahs before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Shahada Kalimah

Arabic word declaration + Shahada Kalimah Islamic declaration of faith + La ilaha illa Allah Muhammadur Rasul Allah + first of Five Pillars of Islam

Islamic theology

Names connected to Kalimah.

Numerology

The number behind Kalimah.

The Leader

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