Arabic Names from al-Andalus: Masculine isms
by Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith)
© 2008 Julia Smith; all rights reserved
last updated 24Mar08
Masculine isms (given names) found in al-Andalus
| `Abbād | Asbāṭ | Hāshim | Muflit | Suktān |
| `Abd al-`Aẓīm | Ashhab | Hātim | Muhallab | Sulaymān |
| `Abd al-`Aziz | Aslam | Haykal | Muḥammad | Ṭāhir |
| `Abd al-Bāqī | Aṭrad | Hishām | Mujāhid | Ṭalḥa |
| `Abd al-Baṣīr | Ayyūb | Hunayn | Mujāriq | Ṭāriq |
| `Abd al-Gafūr | Bahrām | `Imrān | Mulahhab | Ṭayṭal |
| `Abd al-Ganī | Bakr | `Īsa | Mundhir | Ṭayyib |
| `Abd al-Ḥakīm | Balj | `Iyāḍ | Muṣ'ab | Tamīm |
| `Abd al-Ḥamīd | Baqī | Ibrāhīm | Mūsa | Tammām |
| `Abd al-Ḥaqq | Barakāt | Idrīs | Muslim | Tawd |
| `Abd al-Jabbār | Bashīr | Isḥāq | Muṭarrif | Thābit |
| `Abd al-Jalīl | Baṭṭāl | Ismā'īl | Nābit (or Thābit) | Tuways |
| `Abd al-Jāliq | Bulqāsim | Ja`far | Naḍar (Naṣr) | `Ubāda |
| `Abd al-Kabīr | Ḍimām | Jābir | Nāfidh | `Ubayd |
| `Abd al-Karīm | Darrās | Jaḥḥāf | Nafīs | `Ubayd Allāh |
| `Abd Allāh | Dāwūd/Dāūd | Jahwar | Nāṣir | `Ubayda |
| `Abd al-Majīd | Dhu l-Nūn | Jalaf | Naṣr | `Ubaydūn |
| `Abd al-Malik | Dulaf | Jalaf Allāh | Nizār | `Ulaym |
| `Abd al-Mu`ṭī | Faḍl | Jalhama | Nudhayr | `Umar |
| `Abd al-Mun'im | Faraj | Jālid | Nūh | `Uqayl |
| `Abd al-Nūr | Farqad | Jalīl | Qar`ūs | `Urayb |
| `Abd al-Qādir | Fatḥ | Jalṣa | Qāsim | `Uthmān |
| `Abd al-Qāhir | Fulayḥ | Jāmi` | Qaṭan | Umayya |
| `Abd al-Qawī | Fulays | Jarīr | Qays | Wāḍiḥ |
| `Abd al-Raḥīm | Gālib | Jaṭṭāb | Rāshid | Wahb |
| `Abd al-Raḥmān | Gānim | Jayr | Razīn | Walīd |
| `Abd al-Ra'ūf | Garīb | Jayrūn | Ṣabāḥ | Wasīm |
| `Abd al-Salām | Gāzī | Jiḍr | Ṣādiq | Waslās |
| `Abd al-Wadūd | Ḥabīb | Jubayr | Ṣāfī | Wathīma |
| `Abd al-Waḥid | Ḥafṣ | Jūdā | Ṣafwān | Wazīr |
| `Abd al-Wahhāb | Ḥājib | Jumāhir | Ṣajr | Ya`īsh |
| `Abd al-Wārith | Ḥajjāj | Juzayy | Ṣāliḥ | Ya`qūb |
| `Adī | Ḥakam | Kathīr | Sa`d | Yabqà |
| `Affān | Ḥamda | Kaysān | Sa`dān | Yaḥyà |
| `Ā'idh | Ḥamdīn | Kulayb | Sa`īd | Yajlaf |
| `Ajannas | Ḥamdīs | Ma`bad | Sā'ib Jātir | Yāqūt |
| `Alā' | Ḥamdūn | Ma`n | Sahl | Yāsin |
| `Alī | Ḥāmid | Maḥbūb | Salama | Yāsir |
| `Amir | Ḥammād | Maḥfūẓ | Sālim | Yaskar |
| `Āmir | Ḥamza | Maḥmūd | Sallāma | Yazīd |
| `Amr | Ḥasan | Majlūf | Salmūn | Yujāmir |
| `Aqīl | Ḥassān | Makkī | Saqī | Yūnus |
| `Āsim | Ḥaway | Mālik | Sarūr | Yusr |
| `Aṭārid | Ḥayyān | Manṣūr | Shabīb | Yūsuf |
| `Aṭiyya | Ḥazm | Marwān | Shabṭūn | Zabān |
| `Atiq | Ḥiyāz | Mas`ūd | Shajara | Ẓāfir |
| `Ayshūn | Ḥizam | Maslama | Shīth | Ẓahīra |
| `Ayyāsh | Ḥubāb | Maymūn | Shu`ayb | Zakariyyā' |
| `Azīz | Ḥudayda | Mirdās | Shu`ba | Zarb |
| Abān | Ḥurayth | Miṣbāḥ | Shurayḥ | Zayn |
| Aflaḥ | Ḥusayn | Mu'awiya | Shurayq (Sharīf) | Ziyād |
| Afnān | Hāni` | Mubārak | Sind | Zuhayr |
| Aḥmad | Hārith | Mudrik | Sirāj | Zuhr |
| Aṣbag | Hārūn | Mufarrij | Sufyān | Zurār |
| Asad |
Masculine isms with the article al-
| al-`Abbās | al-Jayyānī | al-Nu`mān |
| al-`Ajal | al-Jidr | al-Qāsim |
| al-`Āqib | al-Kāmil | al-Qurashī |
| al-`Awrāยด | al-Kirmānī | al-Rammāḥ |
| al-Ash`atḥ | al-Layth | al-Samḥ |
| al-Faḍl | al-Mahdī | al-Shabrānī |
| al-Faraj | al-Mufaḍḍal | al-Ṭayyib |
| al-Fatḥ | al-Mugīra | al-Tarrāsī |
| al-Gāzī | al-Muḥsin | al-Walīd |
| al-Ḥakam | al-Mundhir | al-Yasa` |
| al-Ḥārith | al-Murbayṭarī | al-Zanqī |
| al-Ḥasan | al-Mustakfī | al-Zibayr |
| al-Ḥusayn | al-Muẓaffar | al-Zubayr |
| al-Hakam | al-Najīb |
Masculine isms found only as names of slaves or freedmen
| Bahja | Muhja | Su`da |
| Fātik | Ragad | Sulaym |
| Fātin | Radāh |
Names found in other parts of the Islamic world (from the same sources)
| `Abd al-Ṣamad | Fuṭays | Mu`ammar |
| `Abdūs | Gassān | Muḍar |
| Ādam | Ḥarmala | Muṭṭalib |
| `Allān | Ḥimās | Nujayḥ |
| Anas | Ḥubaysh | Rūḥ |
| `Awn | Jaythama | Sa`dūn |
| Baḥr | Luqmān | Saḥnūn |
| Baḥrān | Makḥūl | Shujā` |
| Bakkār | Maṭar | Wakī` |
| Bishr | Mawwās | Yamūt |
| Bukayr | Miqdām | Zayd |
| Furāt |