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Norhayati name meaning

“light of life”

Letters: 9
Syllables: 4
First letter: N
Origin: Arabic
Category: Malay Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Peak 1980s: 14.7%
of the girl top-10 total

JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Decade	girl
1940s	–
1950s	–
1960s	–
1970s	14.4%
1980s	14.7%
1990s	–
2000s	–
2010s	–

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Norhayati

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: N Meaning light Arabic origin

Norhayati is a girl's name meaning 'light of life', combining nur 'light' and hayat 'life'.

What does Norhayati mean?

Light of life

In Malay: cahaya kehidupan

#Light #Life

Sources (2)

About the name Norhayati

Norhayati is a compound name: Nor (Nur), from Arabic nur 'light', and Hayati, linked to hayat 'life'. The spelling Nurhayati is also common. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 7,283 baby girls.

Gender	♀ Girl
Origin	Arabic
Syllables	Nor-ha-ya-ti
First letter	Malay Names starting with N

Norhayati in official JPN data

1940s: not in the top 10
1950s: not in the top 10
1960s: not in the top 10
1970s: Girl: 7,283 · 14.4%
1980s: Girl: 5,487 · 14.7%
1990s: not in the top 10
2000s: not in the top 10
2010s: not in the top 10

People registered with Norhayati 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 Norhayati

Sources

Wiktionary: نور · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: حياة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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