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Ramlah name meaning

“sand”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
R
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 9.5%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s9.5%
1950s8.1%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
5

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ramlah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: RMeaning natureArabic origin

Ramlah is a girl's name from Arabic, from raml, meaning 'sand'.

What does Ramlah mean?

Sand

In Malay: pasir

#Nature

Sources (1)

About the name Ramlah

Ramlah derives from Arabic raml, 'sand'; the form ramla means 'a grain of sand'. Another spelling is Ramla. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 4,839 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootر م ل · r-m-l
SyllablesRam-lah
First letterMalay Names starting with R
Arabic scriptرملة

Ramlah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 2,463 · 9.5%
1950s
Girl: 4,839 · 8.1%
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
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ramlah 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)

Compound names with Ramlah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: رمل · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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