Entry № 9306 · Arabic origin

Sawda Sawda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOW-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Sawda bint Zama (wife of Prophet Muhammad)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sawda bint zama (wife of prophet muhammad)".

Sawda is from the Arabic Sawda.

Sawda bint Zama (wife of Prophet Muhammad) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

سودة
Transliteration
Sawda
Pronunciation
/ ˈsaʊ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sawda stands.

Sawda 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.

Sawdas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sawda bint Zama
Second wife of Prophet Muhammad after Khadija + married ~620 CE + Umm al-Muminin Mother of Believers + gave her day with Prophet to Aisha + Islamic Prophetic family
Islamic tradition

Names connected to Sawda.

The number behind Sawda.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sawda reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.