Safin, Safana, Safina
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Balandis, Balanda
- Origin: Lithuanian
- Meaning: “april; pigeon; dove.”
- masc (bahl-LAHN-dis); fem (bah-LAHN-dah)
Balandis comes directly from the Lithuanian word for both the type of bird (dove, pigeon) or the month of April. The word itself is from the Old Prussian root word balts meaning “white.” Both the month and the bird may have gotten this name due to their associations with the colour white.
A feminine form is Balanda.
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Daina
Ayman, Yamina, Yumna
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: “right.”
- masc. (I-mun); fem (yah-MEE-nah); YOOM-na
Ayman is derived from the Arabic word يمين (yamin) meaning “right,” referring to the right hand. The word is ultimately derived from a Semitic root ي م ن (right). The Arabic root word is y-m-n (ي-م-ن), which can mean “right hand,” “right side,” “favor,” “blessing,” “prosperity,” “ease,” or “success.” It shares the same root as the Hebrew מִין (yamin) meaning, “right hand; south,” which forms a basis of the name Benjamin. The country of Yemen also gets its name from the same root word.
The name was borne by a companion of the Prophet Mohammed, known as Ayman Ibn Abayd.
Ayman is a traditional male name in the Arabic-speaking world, but has been commonly used on females in Pakistan, possibly in reference to the kunya of Umm Ayman (meaning “mother of Ayman”, the mother of Ayman Ibn Abayd, or perhaps due to it sounding more feminine in the Urdu language.
Its traditional Arabic feminine form is Yamina يمينة which is a popular female name in Maghrebi countries but is used in other predominate Islamic countries. Another feminine form is Yumna يُمْنَى, which is currently the 983rd most popular female name in the United States (2021).
A more unusual feminine form is Yumnaat يُمْنَات.
Ayamin أَيامِن which is a plural form يمين (yamin) is occasionally used as a unisex name.
Ayman currently ranks as the 96th most popular male name in Catalonia, Spain (2021).
Its current rankings in other countries are as follows:
- #407 (England & Wales, 2021).
- #477 (France)
Its Turkish form of Eymen is the 5th most popular male name in Turkey (2021). In the Netherlands it ranks in at #344 (2022) and in France at #440 (2021).
Another transliteration of Ayman is Aiman.
Other forms include:
- Ejmen (Albanian)
- Yaman, Yamin يمين (Arabic)
- Yumn يُمْن (Arabic)
- Ayman (Arabic, Azeri, Urdu)
- Aiman আইমান Әймән (Bengali, Kazakh, Tatar)
- Ajman (Bosnian)
- Aymon Аймон (Tajik)
- Eymen (Turkish)
Feminine forms include:
- Jamina (Albanian, Bosnian)
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Azraq, Zaraq, Zarqaa
- Origin: Arabic زرقاء
- Meaning: “blue”
- (uz-ROCK); (zuh-ROCK); (zar-KA)
- Usage: Arabic-Speaking countries, India and Pakistani among Muslim communities
Azraq أَزْرَق is from the masculine Arabic noun from the word for blue. The name has occasional use in Arabic-speaking North Africa and the Levant.
It’s feminine form of Zarqaa زرقاء is the Arabic feminine version of the word for blue زرقاء. It is transliterated as Zerqa or Zerka in Maghrebi Arab countries. Zerka can also be the Bosnian or Albanian form. This name has occasional use across the Islamic world.
Zaraq زرق is an Arabic unisex name derived from the neuter Arabic noun meaning “greenish-blue,” roughly translating to the color of turquoise (not the gemstone which in Arabic is Fairuz فيروز). Zaraq is mainly used as a masculine name in Southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan and India, but is considered unisex in the Arabic-Speaking world.
All three names derive from the Arabic root word z-r-q (ز-ر-ق), which means “blue.”
Other transliterations of the feminine form are Zurqa and Zurqa.’
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Yuvan, Yuvika
- masc (YOO-vahn); fem (YOO-vee-kah)
Yuvan is a masculine Indian name derived from the Sanskrit युवन् (yuvan), meaning “youth; strong; healthy.” A Hindi feminine form which shares the same root is Yuvika iयुविका, literally meaning “young girl.”
The latter is born by actress, Yuvika Chaudhary (b. 1983).