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Nur Fatihah name meaning

“light of the beginning”

Letters
10
Syllables
4
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2000s: 5.2%
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–
2000s5.2%
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Nur Fatihah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Nur Fatihah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'light of the beginning'.

What does Nur Fatihah mean?

Light of the beginning

In Malay: cahaya permulaan

#Light#Faith

Sources (2)

About the name Nur Fatihah

Nur Fatihah joins nur, 'light', with fatiha, 'beginning', from the verb fataha, 'to open'. Nurfatehah is another spelling. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2000s with 2,458 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesNur Fa-ti-hah
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور فاتحة

Nur Fatihah 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: 2,458 · 5.2%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Nur Fatihah 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: فاتحة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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