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Nur Syafiqah name meaning

“light; compassionate”

Letters
11
Syllables
4
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1990s: 9.6%
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–
1990s9.6%
2000s5.4%
2010s–

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Nur Syafiqah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'light; compassionate'.

What does Nur Syafiqah mean?

Light; compassionate

In Malay: cahaya; penyayang

#Light#Kindness

Sources (2)

About the name Nur Syafiqah

Nur means light, while Syafiqah is the feminine form of Syafiq (Arabic shafīq), meaning compassionate. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1990s with 3,768 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesNur Sya-fi-qah
PartsNur + Syafiqah
First letterMalay Names starting with N

Nur Syafiqah 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: 3,768 · 9.6%
2000s
Girl: 2,564 · 5.4%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Nur Syafiqah 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. Behind the Name: Shafiq · behindthename.com · meaning

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