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Nur Hidayah name meaning

“light of guidance”

Letters
10
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1990s: 13.7%
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–
1980s–
1990s13.7%
2000s5.5%
2010s–

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

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

What does Nur Hidayah mean?

Light of guidance

In Malay: cahaya petunjuk

#Light#Faith

Sources (2)

About the name Nur Hidayah

Nur Hidayah joins Nur (also Nor or Noor) as an element that commonly comes before girls' names with Hidayah. Nur means 'light' and Hidayah means 'guidance'. Nur, Nor and Noor are spellings of the same element. The combination is used in Malaysia.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
PartsNur + Hidayah
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور هداية

Nur Hidayah 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: 5,402 · 13.7%
2000s
Girl: 2,608 · 5.5%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Nur Hidayah 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: هداية · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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