Women's names are often difficult to locate in Arabic contexts; our main sources for information about names are biographical dictionaries and public documents which rarely mention women, and when they do mention women, often only describe them in terms of their relationships to men. However, women are not entirely invisible in the historical record. Below is a list of names found in records from al-Andalus, as described in Manuela Marín's Mujeres en al-Andalus and the Estudios Onomastico-Biograficos de al-Andalus.
While using a woman's given name is considered somewhat rude in certain parts of the Arabic world today, there is no evidence that that was true in al-Andalus in period, and considerable evidence against it, as many women's given names were recorded in a variety of documents.
The first list here are the names of free women. Diminutives derived from a given name are found beneath them. Diminutives seem to have been relatively uncommon early in this period, but became more common at the end of this period. By the sixteenth century, many diminutive forms of names can be found. Those names which are not Arabic in origin are marked in the text: * indicates that the name is Berber (or some other North African language) in origin, † indicates that the name is Spanish (or some other Romance language) in origin.
| `Ā'isha | Baraka | Hind | Mut`a | Sakan |
| `Āyshūna | Bazī`a | Hushayma | Muzāḥima | Salma |
| `Īshūsh | Burayha | Idlāl | Muzna | Salwa |
| `Ātika | Buthayna | Ihtizāz | Muzayna | Samra |
| `Abda | Ḍanā | Ishrāq | Najāt | Satāra |
| `Āfiya | Dhūna† | I`timād | Najm | Ṣawwāb |
| `Azīza | Elvira† | Jālida | Najma | Sayyida |
| `Aziza | Fāṭima | Jamāl/Ḥulal | Nazhūn | Shams |
| `Ubayda | Faṭhūna | Jamīla | Niẓām | al-Shifā' |
| `Ulla | Fuṭayma | Jawrā'/Ḥawrā' | Nu'ayma | Su`ād |
| `Utayqa | Fahr/Fajr | Kanza | Nuwayra | Ṣubḥ |
| Āmina | Fannū | Karīma | Nuzha | Sukayna |
| Umayna | Fatna | Kinda | Qasmūna | al-Ṣūra |
| Amat al-`Azīz | Faynān | Labbuna | Qusayma | Tahr |
| Amat al-`Izz | Gāliba | Layla | Rāḍiya | Tahtazz |
| Amat al-Jāliq | Gamāma | Lidhdha | Rāḥ* | Tāgīshit |
| Amat al-Malik | Gāniya | Lubna | Rashīda | Ṭarūb |
| Amat al-Raḥīm | Gislān | Maḥabba | Rasīs | Tkfāt/Kafāt* |
| Amat al-Raḥmān | Ḥabība | Mahjūna | Ra'y | (Ṭ)ūna |
| Amat al-Rabb | Ḥabāb/Ḥubāba | Makkīya | Rayḥāna | `Ubayda |
| Amat al-Wahhāb | Ḥafṣa | Marjān/Mahrajān | Ruḥayma | `Ulla |
| Amīra | Hadīja | Maryam | Rumayla | `Ulayya |
| Arwa (Yemeni name) | Ḥakīma | Maṣābīḥ | Ruqayya | Umayma |
| Asmā' | Ḥalāwa* | Ma`shūq | Sa`dūna | Urrāka† |
| Asmūna | Ḥamda/Ḥamdūna | Maymūna | Sa`āda | Usaymā' |
| Asmūnīya | Ḥamīda | Mayya | Sa`da | `Utayqa |
| Athl* | Ḥassāna | Mu'ammara | Sa`dūna | Wājid |
| Awriya† | Ḥawā' | Mu'mina | Ṣafīya | Wallāda |
| Ayluh† | Hayāl | Muhja | Sa`īda | Zahra |
| al-Bahā' | Hayzurān | Mūna | Sāra† | Zaynab |
| Balāg |
Meanings are given for some names because many slaves have names that are transparent in meaning or otherwise odd.
| `Abīda | |
| `Afrā' | 'red gazelle' |
| `Āj | 'marble' |
| `Ajab | 'marvelous' |
| `Alam | 'signal, sign' |
| `Ashshār | |
| `Ātib | 'quarrelsome' |
| `Atīq | man's name used for slave woman |
| `Azīz | man's name used for slave woman |
| al-Ajfā' | 'the thin' |
| al-Arāka | kind of tree |
| al-Bahā' | 'beauty' |
| al-Shifā' | 'curing' |
| al-Yāsamīn | 'jasmine' |
| al-Zahrā' | 'splendid faced' |
| Amal | 'hope' |
| Āna | 'Ana' (Sicilian slave - only case of keeping original name) |
| Athl | kind of tree |
| Badhl | 'gift' |
| Badī` | 'astonishing' |
| Bahār | 'sweet smelling plant' |
| Bahja | 'beauty' |
| Balāg | 'enough' |
| Banafsaj | 'violet' |
| Barīra | |
| Bazī` | 'amusing' |
| Bazī`a | 'amusing' |
| Bid`a | 'novelty' |
| Buhayr | 'little beauty' (from Bahr) |
| Bustān | 'garden' |
| Da`jā' | 'big black eyes' |
| Dḥanā' | 'smallness' |
| Dhayl | 'complement' |
| Durr | 'pearl' |
| Faḍl | 'grace, merit' |
| Fajr | 'dawn' |
| Fajr | 'honor, excellence' |
| Fātik | |
| Fātin | |
| Fatyān | 'seduction' |
| Fawz | 'victory' |
| Faynān | 'having abundant hair' |
| Gāya | 'objective, goal' |
| Gizlān | 'gazelles' |
| Ḥabāb | 'loved' |
| Ḥalāwa | 'sweetness' |
| Ḥalh.al | 'agitation' |
| Ḥawrā' | 'having dark eyes with striking white contrast' |
| Ḥulal | 'tunics' |
| Ḥur | 'having dark eyes with striking white contrast' |
| Halwa | 'solitude' |
| Hayāl | 'fantasy's |
| Hulla | 'friendship' |
| Humān | 'melted snow' |
| Hunayda | |
| `Iṭr | 'perfume' |
| I`timād | 'trust' |
| Idlāl | 'boldness' |
| Ihtizāz | 'path of a falling star' |
| Ishrāq | 'luster, sparkle' |
| Jadī` | 'deceitful' |
| Jamāl | 'beauty' |
| Jawdhar | 'calf' |
| Jawhara | 'jewel' |
| Jayhān | |
| Karīma | |
| Kitmān | 'discretion' |
| Kulthūm | 'fat-cheeked' |
| Layla | 'night' |
| Ma`sūq | 'loved' |
| Mahāriq | 'embelesos' |
| Mahua | 'soul, life' |
| Majd | 'glory, fame' |
| Mājin | 'shameless' |
| Malak | 'angel' |
| Marjān | 'coral' |
| Maṣābīh. | 'lamps' |
| Mayya | 'monkey' |
| Mu'ammara | |
| Mudaththara | |
| Mujtāla | 'cheater, imposter' |
| Mulḥa | 'prosperity' |
| Mūna | 'provisions' |
| Mushtāq | 'desired' |
| Mustaẓraf | 'luxurious' |
| Mut`a | 'pleasure' |
| Mutayyam | 'captive of love' |
| Muzna | 'rain' |
| Najm | 'star' |
| Narjis | 'narcissus' |
| Nu`m | 'prosperity, happiness' |
| Nūr | 'light' |
| Nuzha | 'pleasure' |
| Qalam | 'cálamo' |
| Qamar | 'moon' |
| Quraysh | name of an Arabic tribe |
| Radāḥ | 'slim hipped' |
| Ragad | 'opulence' |
| Rāḥa | 'sosiego' |
| Rayyān | 'myrtle' |
| Riḍwān | 'satisfaction' |
| Ṣubh. | 'dawn, aurora' |
| Sakra | |
| Salma | 'plant' |
| Sha`n | 'dignity' |
| Shanf | 'earring' |
| Sharaf | 'honor' |
| Sharīq | 'brilliant' |
| Shu`ā' | |
| Siḥr | 'enchanting' |
| Sulwān | 'shell' |
| Ṭarab | 'embeleso' |
| Ṭarūb | 'happy' |
| Ṭulal | 'sherbert' |
| Tamām | 'perfection' |
| Thurayyā | 'Pleiades' |
| `Ula | |
| `Uqār | 'luxurious clothes' |
| `Utba | |
| Ward | 'rose' |
| Widād | 'lovers' |
| Ya`far | man's name used for slave woman |
| Ẓubīya | 'little gazelle' |
| Zahr | 'flower' |
| Zuhr | |
| Zujruf | 'adornment' |
| Zumurrud | 'emerald' |
| Zumurruda |