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Hasnah name meaning

“beautiful woman, belle”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
H
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1950s: 9.4%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s6.6%
1950s9.4%
1960s9.1%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
5

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Hasnah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: HMeaning beautyArabic origin

Hasnah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'beautiful woman' or 'belle'.

What does Hasnah mean?

Beautiful woman, belle

In Malay: jelita; sangat cantik

Sources (1)

About the name Hasnah

Hasnah is a spelling of Hasna', an Arabic word from the root h-s-n meaning beauty. According to JPN it peaked in the 1960s with 6,058 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootح س ن · ḥ-s-n
SyllablesHas-nah
First letterMalay Names starting with H
Arabic scriptحسناء

Hasnah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 1,693 · 6.6%
1950s
Girl: 5,629 · 9.4%
1960s
Girl: 6,058 · 9.1%
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 Hasnah 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 Hasnah

Sources

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

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