Quranic Baby Names
16 quranic baby names. Median rank #199 in Canada for 2024, up 41 places since 2020.
Each line is the median rank of the names in this collection that appear on that place’s list in every complete year shown, inside the top 1,000.
Girls 2 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryam | Beloved, wished-for child | #88 ↑47 | #390 ↑115 |
| Mariam | Beloved, wished-for child | #202 ↑45 | #491 ↑145 |
Boys 13 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muhammad | Praised, praiseworthy | #26 ↑23 | #245 ↑64 |
| Ibrahim | Father of many | #84 ↑78 | #359 ↑82 |
| Mohammad | Praised, praiseworthy | #121 ↑112 | #599 ↑64 |
| Yusuf | God increases | #147 ↑72 | #475 ↑97 |
| Mohammed | Praised, praiseworthy | #176 ↑56 | #596 ↑46 |
| Musa | Drawn out of water | #195 ↑94 | #525 ↑219 |
| Ahmed | Highly praised, most commendable | #220 ↑6 | #687 ↓53 |
| Ahmad | Highly praised, most commendable | #242 ↑20 | #669 ↓45 |
| Idris | Studious | #293 ↑90 | #739 ↑90 |
| Zaid | Growth, abundance | #418 ↑197 | #662 ↑7 |
| Yousef | God increases | #425 ↓6 | #766 ↑99 |
| Ismail | God listens | #567 ↑25 | — |
| Yasin | Name of a Quran chapter (Surah Ya-Sin) | #946 ↑311 | — |
Also in this collection, but not in the top 1,000 of any list here: Muhammed.
How this collection is built
The names are grouped by hand; every rank beside them is an official birth registration count, read from each place’s most recent complete list. A name that ranks for both girls and boys appears under both tabs with its own rank in each — those two positions are often far apart, and that gap is the interesting part.
See the same names year by year in the full rankings.
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