Kurdish names
22 names from the Kurdish naming tradition, each with its meaning, origin, pronunciation and how it is seen around the world.
- 'EbdullaBoyKurdish form of the Arabic Abd Allah, "servant of God".
- 'EbdulrehmanBoyKurdish form of the Arabic Abd ar-Rahman, "servant of the Merciful".
- Alan (Kurdish)BoyFrom Kurdish sources, named after a tribal group in the 17th-century Kurdish romance Mem û Zîn.
- Aram (Kurdish)BoyKurdish for "calm" or "at rest".
- AsmînGirlFrom Kurdish asîman, "sky, heaven".
- AştîUnisexFrom Kurdish aştî, "peace, tranquility".
- BerfînGirlKurdish name for the snowdrop flower (Galanthus).
- BirûskBoyFrom Kurdish birûsk, "lightning".
- DiyarUnisexFrom Kurdish diyar, "apparent, visible, clear".
- EhmedBoyKurdish form of the Arabic Ahmad, "most praiseworthy".
- EvînGirlThe Kurdish word for love, used directly as a first name.
- GulistanGirlFrom Persian for "rose" and "place": a rose garden.
- HozanUnisexKurdish word for a bard or minstrel-poet.
- HusênBoyKurdish spelling of the Arabic Husayn, a diminutive of Hasan, "good, handsome".
- MihemedBoyKurdish spelling of the Arabic Muhammad, "praised, praiseworthy".
- MistefaBoyKurdish spelling of the Arabic Mustafa, "the chosen one".
- NesrînGirlKurdish and Persian word for the wild eglantine rose.
- NîgaGirlKurdish word, from Persian, for a look or a gaze.
- PerwînGirlThe Kurdish spelling of Parvin, the Persian word for the Pleiades star cluster.
- ViyanGirlBuilt on the Kurmanji Kurdish word for wanting or wishing, so the name reads as "desire" or "wish".
- ZîlanGirlKurdish for "wind".
- ZînGirlBest explained through the Perso-Arabic root shared with Zeynep and Zainab, "beauty, ornament", though some give it…