Entry № 7623 · Arabic origin

Nuha Nuha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOO-hah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Wisdom / intellect (Quranic Surah Ta-Ha)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "wisdom / intellect (quranic surah ta-ha)".

Nuha is from the Arabic نهى (Nuhā — wisdom, intellect, mind) — plural of nuhyah (intellect). Nuha is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Islamic intellectual heritage.

Wisdom / intellect (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

نهى
Transliteration
Nuhā
Pronunciation
/ ˈnuː.hə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nuha stands.

Nuha 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.

Nuhas before her.

Real people
Nuha al-Radi
Iraqi-Palestinian artist + Baghdad Diaries memoir of 1991 Gulf War + pioneering Arab women's war literature.
1941 – 2004
In fiction
Ulu an-Nuhā
Quran 20:54 + 20:128 + Surah Ta-Ha + people of intellect/wisdom + Islamic ethical formation heritage.
Quran

Names connected to Nuha.

The number behind Nuha.

8

The Visionary

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