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Zulkifli name meaning

“he who possesses the lot”

Letters
8
Syllables
3
First letter
Z
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1970s: 10.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s10%
1970s10.6%
1980s7.2%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
44

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Zulkifli

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: ZMeaning faithArabic origin

Zulkifli is a male name from Arabic Dhū al-Kifl, generally understood as 'he who possesses the lot'.

What does Zulkifli mean?

He who possesses the lot

In Malay: yang memiliki bahagian

#Faith

Sources (1)

About the name Zulkifli

Zulkifli is the Malay form of Arabic Dhū al-Kifl, the name of a prophet in the Quran (21:85 and 38:48). Dhū means 'owner' and al-kifl 'lot' or 'share', though Wiktionary notes the exact meaning is unclear. According to JPN it peaked in the 1960s with 5,386 baby boys. Other spellings include Zulkefli and Dzulkifli.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
SyllablesZul-kif-li
First letterMalay Names starting with Z
Arabic scriptذو الكفل

Zulkifli in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 5,386 · 10%
1970s
Boy: 4,668 · 10.6%
1980s
Boy: 3,242 · 7.2%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Zulkifli 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 Zulkifli

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: ذو الكفل · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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