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K Names

Browse Muslim and Quranic baby names beginning with the letter K.

Names beginning with K can include modern names, traditional Islamic names and Quranic-inspired choices. This A–Z page makes it easier to browse them all in one place.

604 names found

Kafiyah

Arabic

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Kafiyah is an Arabic name for girls that means sufficient, a person who can fully take care of another persons needs and make them needless of others.

Kahal

Arabic

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Kahal is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means one who has dark eyelids, a person whose eyelids have the natural appearance of having kohl on them.

Kalamuddin

Arabic

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Kalamuddin is an Arabic name for boys that means speech of the faith, which means a person who is endowed with knowledge of the faith and speaks on behalf of it.

Kamaluddeen

Arabic

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Kamaluddeen is an indirect Quranic name for boys that means perfection of the religion, wholeness of the religion, it suggests that the baby is a shining example of a believer, one who makes the religion seem beautiful and perfect. Kamaluddeen is formed from Kamal (perfection) and ad-Deen (the religion, Islam)

Kamil

Arabic

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Perfect, complete., consumate, thotough, Abu Bakr Ahmad was Ibn Kamil, he studied with Tabari and was a judge at Kufah and a scholar of Hadith.

Kayaneh

Arabic

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Kayaneh is a Persian name for girls that means royal, queen-like. The name comes from Pahlavi origins and has no relationship to similar-sounding Arabic names.

Keyan

Arabic

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Keyan is an indirect Quranic name for boys that means being, existence, essence. It is derived from the K-W-N (existence, being, was) root, which is one of the most common roots of the Arabic language, used over 800 times in the Quran:

Khaalud

Arabic

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Khalud is an Arabic name for boys that means immortal, eternal. It is a phonetic variant of Khalud (which has a shorter a sound at the beginning).

Khabur

Arabic

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Khabur is an Arabic name for boys and girls that refers to a type of tree or bush that has a good smell. It is unclear what tree exactly is meant. Khabur is also the name of a river in Syria that flows into the Euphrates river.

Khadujah

Arabic

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Khadujah is an Arabic name for girls that means one who gives birth to a baby before its time is due, a daughter who is born before her time is due. It is a pet form of Khadijah.

Khaleef

Arabic

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Khaleef is an indirect Quranic name for boys and girls. It means successor (synonym of Khaleefa), heir, a road that goes between two mountains, or any path that is found in the mountains, including paths through which water flows. It is derived from the Kh-L-F root which is found in many locations in the Quran.

Khaleefa

Arabic

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Khaleefa is a direct Quranic name for boys and girls. It means heir, successor, agent, deputy, trustee, and the Quran uses it to refer to all humanity, since humans are Gods agents, successors and representatives on Earth as is mentioned in the Quran.

Khali

Arabic

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Khali is an Arabic name for boys that means solitary, one who is by himself. It also means that which has passed. It also means empty.

Khaseeb

Arabic

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Khaseeb is an Arabic name for boys. It is a word used to describe land and means fruitful, productive, fertile, filled with trees and grass.

Khayyira

Arabic

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Beautiful and Radiant | Noble, Admirable and Praiseworthy. Khayyira is a synonym of (has the same meaning as) Khaira, it means a woman who is good in character and beautiful in looks and manners. Look at the page for Khaira for more information on these two names.

Khosrau

Arabic

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Khosrau is a Persian name for boys that means king. It is the name of a number of Persian emperors. In Western literature the name is written as Chosroes. In Arabic the name is known as Kisra. While scholars coming from Arab culture would dislike the use of the name Kisra.

Kinanah

Arabic

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Kinanah is an Arabic name for girls that means quiver, which is a container that holds arrows. Kinanah is also the name of an Arabian tribe (called Banu Kinanah, i.e. children of Kinanah) descended from Prophet Ilyas (Elijah), to which the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah upon him) belongs.

Kourosh

Arabic

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Kourosh is a Persian name for boys that means like the Sun. Kourosh is the name of the founder of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia, who is known as Cyrus the Great in English.

Kuaybah

Arabic

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A distinguished woman of her times was so named, she was the daughter of Sad al-Aslamiyah and she offered allegiance (bayah) to the Prophet (S.A.W) after hijrah, she treated the ill and performed surg

Kulfah

Arabic

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Kulfah is an Arabic name for girls that means tan color, a color between black and red. It also means charge, burden, something entrusted to your care.

Kulfat

Arabic

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Kulfat is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means charge, burden, something entrusted to your care. It also means tan color, a color between black and red.