Entry № 11520 · Arabic origin

Widad Widad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wee-DAHD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Affection / love"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "affection / love".

Widad is from the Arabic Widād.

Affection / love — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

وداد
Transliteration
Widād
Pronunciation
/ wiːˈdɑːd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Widad stands.

Widad 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.

Widads before her.

Real people

In fiction
Quran 19:96 / Al-Wadūd
Arabic love affection + Quran 19:96 Most Merciful will appoint for them affection + Al-Wadūd The Most Loving 99 Names of God + Islamic theological heritage
Quran

Names connected to Widad.

The number behind Widad.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Widad reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.