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Halimah name meaning

“patient, gentle, forbearing”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
H
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 9.6%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s9.6%
1950s7.4%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
6

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Halimah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: HMeaning patienceArabic origin

Halimah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'patient' and 'gentle'.

What does Halimah mean?

Patient, gentle, forbearing

In Malay: penyabar, lemah lembut, bertimbang rasa

#Patience#Kindness

Sources (1)

About the name Halimah

Halimah is the feminine form of Halim, an Arabic word meaning patient and gentle. The name is also associated with Halimah al-Sa'diyyah, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad. According to JPN it peaked in the 1950s with 4,411 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesHa-li-mah
First letterMalay Names starting with H
Arabic scriptحليمة

Halimah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 2,488 · 9.6%
1950s
Girl: 4,411 · 7.4%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
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 Halimah 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 Halimah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: حليم · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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