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Nur Atiqah name meaning

“light; ancient, free”

Also spelled Nur Atikah

Letters
9
Syllables
4
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1990s: 8.9%
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–
1990s8.9%
2000s–
2010s–

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Nur Atiqah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'light; ancient, free'.

What does Nur Atiqah mean?

Light; ancient, free

In Malay: cahaya; purba, merdeka

#Light

Sources (2)

About the name Nur Atiqah

Nur means light, while Atiqah is the feminine form of the Arabic adjective ʿatīq, meaning ancient or old, and also free or emancipated. The spelling Atikah is also used in Malaysia. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1990s with 3,495 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesNur A-ti-qah
PartsNur + Atiqah
First letterMalay Names starting with N

Nur Atiqah 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
Girl: 3,495 · 8.9%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Nur Atiqah 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 Atikah (1990s 3,351 girl)

Sources

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

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