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Norhidayah name meaning

“light of guidance”

Letters
10
Syllables
4
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1980s: 7.7%
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–
1980s7.7%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Norhidayah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Norhidayah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'light of guidance'.

What does Norhidayah mean?

Light of guidance

In Malay: cahaya petunjuk

#Light#Faith

Sources (2)

About the name Norhidayah

Norhidayah combines Arabic nūr, 'light', and hidāyah, 'guidance'. It is also written Nur Hidayah or Nurhidayah. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 2,860 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesNor-hi-da-yah
Other spellingsNur Hidayah
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور هداية

Norhidayah 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: 2,860 · 7.7%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Norhidayah 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)

Other spellings in the JPN data: Nur Hidayah (1990s 5,402 girl, 2000s 2,608 girl)

Compound names with Norhidayah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: نور · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: هداية · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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