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Ramli name meaning

“sandy; of sand”

Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
R
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1950s: 8.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s8.8%
1960s7.4%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
44

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ramli

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: RMeaning natureArabic origin

Ramli is a male name from Arabic ramlī meaning 'sandy'.

What does Ramli mean?

Sandy; of sand

In Malay: berpasir; berkaitan pasir

#Nature

Sources (1)

About the name Ramli

Ramli comes from Arabic ramlī, a relational adjective formed from raml 'sand' with the nisba suffix -iyy. According to JPN it peaked in the 1960s with 3,975 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
Rootر م ل · r-m-l
SyllablesRam-li
First letterMalay Names starting with R
Arabic scriptرملي

Ramli in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Boy: 3,861 · 8.8%
1960s
Boy: 3,975 · 7.4%
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 Ramli 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 Ramli

Sources

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

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