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Mohd Hafiz name meaning

“guardian; one who knows the Quran by heart”

Letters
9
Syllables
3
First letter
M
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1980s: 14%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s14%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Malay Names: MMeaning protectionArabic origin

Mohd Hafiz is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning 'guardian; one who knows the Quran by heart'.

What does Mohd Hafiz mean?

Guardian; one who knows the Quran by heart

In Malay: penjaga; penghafaz al-Quran

#Protection#Knowledge

Sources (1)

About the name Mohd Hafiz

Mohd is the abbreviated written form of Muhammad, common in Malaysia. Hafiz is the Arabic word ḥāfiẓ meaning guardian, and also someone who has memorised the Quran. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1980s with 6,334 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
SyllablesMohd Ha-fiz
First letterMalay Names starting with M

Mohd Hafiz 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
Boy: 6,334 · 14%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mohd Hafiz 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)

Sources

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

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