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Nur Aisyah name meaning

“light and life”

Letters
9
Syllables
4
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2000s: 4.9%
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–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s4.9%
2010s–
3

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Nur Aisyah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Nur Aisyah is a girl's name from Arabic, combining 'light' and 'living'.

What does Nur Aisyah mean?

Light and life

In Malay: cahaya dan kehidupan

#Light#Life

Sources (2)

About the name Nur Aisyah

Nur Aisyah combines nūr (نور), 'light', with Aisyah (عائشة), the feminine active participle of the verb 'to live'. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2000s with 2,358 baby girls. Other spellings include Nuraisyah, Noraishah and Nuraisah.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesNur A-i-syah
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور عائشة

Nur Aisyah 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
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
Girl: 2,358 · 4.9%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Nur Aisyah 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: نور · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: عائشة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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