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Mastura name meaning

“covered, concealed, chaste”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
M
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1980s: 6.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s6.9%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
3

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Mastura

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: MMeaning protectionArabic origin

Mastura is a girl's name from Arabic mastūrah, meaning 'covered, concealed'.

What does Mastura mean?

Covered, concealed, chaste

In Malay: yang tertutup; yang terpelihara

#Protection

Sources (1)

About the name Mastura

Mastura comes from Arabic mastūrah, the feminine of mastūr, 'concealed' or 'covered', from the verb satara, 'to cover'. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1980s with 2,579 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesMas-tu-ra
First letterMalay Names starting with M
Arabic scriptمستورة

Mastura in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Girl: 2,579 · 6.9%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mastura 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 Mastura

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: مستور (mastūr: concealed, hidden) · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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