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Azizah name meaning

“precious, dear, mighty”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1950s: 13.4%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s7.4%
1950s13.4%
1960s11.6%
1970s8.7%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
6

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Azizah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning kindnessArabic origin

Azizah is a girl's name from Arabic, the feminine of 'Aziz, meaning 'precious' and 'dear'.

What does Azizah mean?

Precious, dear, mighty

In Malay: berharga, tersayang, perkasa

#Kindness#Strength

Sources (2)

About the name Azizah

Azizah is the feminine form of 'Aziz, an Arabic word meaning mighty, precious and dear. Other spellings include Aziza and Azeezah. According to JPN it peaked in the 1950s with 7,979 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootع ز ز · ʿ-z-z
SyllablesA-zi-zah
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptعزيزة

Azizah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 1,916 · 7.4%
1950s
Girl: 7,979 · 13.4%
1960s
Girl: 7,691 · 11.6%
1970s
Girl: 4,381 · 8.7%
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Azizah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Azizah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: عزيز · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: عزيزة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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