Names by region
Middle Eastern and Central Asian names
377 names across 5 traditions. Every name links to its own page: meaning, origin and, where the records allow it, a century of popularity.
Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish names: five traditions that share more names than their spellings suggest. Each collection below carries the meaning and origin of every name; Arab American families have a collection of their own as well.
Most given in the United States, 2020 to 2025
- 1Noah118,698 births
- 2Elijah72,201 births
- 3Benjamin64,976 births
- 4Ava63,391 births
- 5Levi57,552 births
- 6Daniel52,805 births
- 7Ethan50,648 births
- 8Samuel50,381 births
- 9Ezra50,076 births
- 10Asher48,519 births
- 11David45,664 births
- 12Jacob45,220 births
- 13Gabriel41,600 births
- 14Isaac40,028 births
- 15Abigail37,400 births
- 16Layla35,060 births
- 17Caleb33,947 births
- 18Eliana33,374 births
- 19Ezekiel33,140 births
- 20Isaiah33,017 births
The names on this page that appear in Social Security records, ranked by births in 2020 to 2025. Names the records do not publish (spellings given to fewer than five babies a year) cannot appear here.
The collections
Every collection below is one tradition, with the meaning and origin of each name.
Arabic names 86 names
Omar · Yusuf · Ibrahim · Ali
Armenian names 78 names
Armen · Vahan · Vartan · Hovhannes
Hebrew names 81 names
Noah · Ethan · Elijah · Levi
Persian names 84 names
Yasmin · Roxana · Shirin · Mitra
Turkish names 57 names
Ayse · Fatma · Emine · Hatice
Also on this siteArab American names