Kuwaiti Name Generator

Kuwaiti given names, father's names and family names

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Generate Kuwaiti names: given names in Gulf spelling such as Mishari, Jassim, Lulwa and Bibi with the family names heard in Kuwait, from old town families like Al-Ghanim and Al-Qatami and names such as Behbehani, Dashti and Al-Kandari to tribal names like Al-Mutairi and Al-Azmi, some with the father's name in between.

About Kuwaiti names

A Kuwaiti name is a chain. The given name comes first, the father's given name second, often the grandfather's third, and the family name last, so Fatima Abdulhussain Bushehri is Fatima, daughter of Abdulhussain, of the Bushehri family. Everyday use keeps only the given name and the family name. Women keep their own family name after marriage, and children take the father's.

The family name is what places a name in Kuwait. Many are written with Al-, which is either the Arabic word for the or a separate word meaning family of. Al-Ghanim, Al-Qatami, Al-Roumi and Al-Nisf are names long tied to the old town, its dhow trade and its pearling. Tribal names that end in -i, such as Al-Mutairi, Al-Ajmi, Al-Azmi and Al-Enezi, are shared with the neighboring countries. A third group points across the Gulf to Iran: Behbehani from Behbahan, Bushehri from Bushehr, and also Dashti, Marafie, Ashkanani and Al-Kandari. Some names are trades, like Al-Qallaf the shipwright, and a few begin with Bu or Bin, as in Bourisli and Bin Eidan.

Spellings follow Kuwaiti habit: Jassim, Yousef, Yaqoub, Humoud, Mishari, Lulwa. The list mixes two-part names, three-part names with the father's name, and single given names and family names to combine yourself. The name of the ruling family, Al-Sabah, is left out.

How to choose Kuwaiti names

  • Pick the form for the setting. Two parts (Lulwa Al-Roumi) is everyday use, and three parts with the father's name (Fatima Abdulhussain Bushehri) is how a passport, a school record or a formal introduction reads.
  • The middle name is always a man's given name, also in a woman's name: Noura Hazza Al-Ajmi is Noura, daughter of Hazza. Brothers and sisters therefore share both the middle name and the family name.
  • Do not add Al- to every family name. Behbehani, Dashti, Marafie, Ashkanani, Qabazard, Bourisli and Boodai are written without it.
  • A married woman keeps her own family name, so a husband and wife in your story will usually have different ones.
  • Search a full name before you publish it. The pool of given names is small, and a common pair is shared by many real people.

Frequently asked questions

How are Kuwaiti names structured?

Given name first, then the father's given name, often the grandfather's, and the family name last. Ammar Loay Al-Kooh is Ammar, son of Loay, of the Al-Kooh family. In daily life most people go by the given name and the family name alone.

What are some Kuwaiti family names?

Family names in the list include Al-Ghanim, Al-Qatami, Al-Mudhaf and Al-Adsani, tribal names such as Al-Mutairi, Al-Ajmi and Al-Rashidi, names like Behbehani, Dashti, Al-Kandari and Al-Awadhi, and trade names such as Al-Qallaf and Al-Haddad. Many of the tribal names are also found in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states.

Do Kuwaiti names use bin and bint?

Usually not in writing. The names simply follow one another, and bin (son of) or bint (daughter of) is understood between them. The words may still be spelled out in a formal or traditional style, so Sulaiman Bassam Al-Shammari can also be read as Sulaiman bin Bassam.

Do these names belong to real people?

The list pairs given names used in Kuwait with family names found there. It is not taken from any register, and no combination is meant to point to a particular person, although with common names a match can happen by chance. The ruling family's name is left out.

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A: 118 names

  • Abbas Ziad Al-Baghli
  • Abdal
  • Abdulaziz Bin Eidan
  • Abdulaziz Hussain Khuraibet
  • Abdulhameed Al-Babtain
  • Abdulhameed Al-Fadhli
  • Abdulhameed Safar
  • Abdulkareem Al-Fouzan
  • Abdulkareem Sadeq Ghuloum
  • Abdullah Al-Ayyar
  • Abdullah Al-Dhafiri
  • Abdullatif Al-Sabeeh
  • Abdullatif Yaqoub Ashkanani
  • Abdullatif Zalzalah
  • Abdulmohsen
  • Abdulmohsen Al-Fares
  • Abdulmohsen Al-Sarawi
  • Abdulrahman Sami Al-Shawwaf
  • Abdulrahman Shirazi
  • Abdulredha
  • Abdulredha Dashti
  • Abdulwahab
  • Abdulwahab Al-Baqsami
  • Abdulwahab Al-Fadhala
  • Abdulwahab Ashour
  • Adel Al-Mousawi
  • Adel Fadhel Al-Fulaij
  • Adel Yahya Al-Kandari
  • Adnan Al-Enezi
  • Adnan Al-Marzouq
  • Adnan Faisal Al-Farsi
  • Afrah Boland
  • Afrah Qais Al-Tourah
  • Ahlam Al-Lanqawi
  • Ahlam Al-Radhwan
  • Ahmad Al-Mousawi
  • Aisha Omar Al-Yaqout
  • Akbar
  • Al-Abdulhadi

A, continued

  • Al-Abdulmughni
  • Al-Adwani
  • Al-Awadhi
  • Al-Azmi
  • Al-Dhafiri
  • Al-Dosari
  • Al-Duwaisan
  • Al-Essa
  • Al-Fares
  • Al-Farsi
  • Al-Ghanim
  • Al-Jarallah
  • Al-Jazzaf
  • Al-Kazemi
  • Al-Khaldi
  • Al-Kharafi
  • Al-Mailam
  • Al-Marri
  • Al-Marzouq
  • Al-Mazidi
  • Al-Mousawi
  • Al-Musallam
  • Al-Nafisi
  • Al-Najdi
  • Al-Najjar
  • Al-Ostad
  • Al-Otaibi
  • Al-Othman
  • Al-Qatami
  • Al-Qazwini
  • Al-Qenaei
  • Al-Rashidi
  • Al-Roudhan
  • Al-Roumi
  • Al-Rujaib
  • Al-Sabeeh
  • Al-Sabti
  • Al-Sager
  • Al-Sahli

A, continued

  • Al-Sarawi
  • Al-Sarraf
  • Al-Shaheen
  • Al-Shuaib
  • Al-Sinan
  • Al-Tamimi
  • Al-Thuwaini
  • Al-Wazzan
  • Alanoud Al-Daihani
  • Alanoud Al-Enezi
  • Alanoud Al-Rashidi
  • Ali Al-Sinan
  • Ali Mazen Al-Othman
  • Alia Al-Essa
  • Alia Dashti
  • Altaf
  • Altaf Ashkanani
  • Altaf Mishari Al-Abdulrazzaq
  • Altaf Wael Al-Sager
  • Amal Dehrab
  • Amal Qutaiba Al-Mutawa
  • Amani Al-Qallaf
  • Amani Dakheel Al-Azmi
  • Amani Yahya Al-Qamlas
  • Ammar Loay Al-Kooh
  • Anas Abdulrazzaq Al-Adwani
  • Anfal
  • Anfal Hani Al-Houti
  • Anfal Qabazard
  • Anwar Al-Najdi
  • Anwar Al-Shaya
  • Aseel Al-Abdulghafour
  • Ashkanani
  • Ashour
  • Athari
  • Athari Al-Baghli
  • Athari Al-Bloushi
  • Awatef
  • Awatef Al-Dabbous
  • Awatef Kadhem Shirazi

B: 28 names

  • Bader
  • Bader Bukhamseen
  • Bader Faisal Al-Yaseen
  • Badriya
  • Badriya Al-Khaldi
  • Badriya Al-Musallam
  • Badriya Anwar Behbehani
  • Bahman
  • Baqer Jawhar
  • Barrak
  • Barrak Al-Muwaizri
  • Barrak Al-Osaimi
  • Bashar Nasser Dashti
  • Bashayer
  • Bashayer Al-Ateeqi
  • Bashayer Al-Awadhi
  • Bassam Al-Qatami
  • Batoul Al-Saffar
  • Bazza
  • Bazza Al-Humaidhi
  • Bibi
  • Bibi Al-Kandari
  • Bibi Al-Muwaizri
  • Bibi Khaled Al-Qenaei
  • Bodour Al-Harbi
  • Bodour Al-Sanousi
  • Bodour Zalzalah
  • Boodai

D: 13 names

  • Dakheel Al-Azmi
  • Dalal
  • Dalal Al-Saleh
  • Dalal Boland
  • Dalal Zakariya Al-Hazeem
  • Dana Al-Ghunaim
  • Dana Ibrahim Abdal
  • Dawood Abul
  • Dhari
  • Dhari Ahmad Al-Muwaizri
  • Dhuha Al-Shatti
  • Dhuha Saleh Al-Nouri
  • Duaij

E: 11 names

  • Ebtisam Al-Fadhli
  • Ebtisam Al-Hunaidi
  • Emad Al-Moumen
  • Emad Qabazard
  • Entisar Boodai
  • Eqbal
  • Eqbal Al-Humaidhi
  • Eqbal Al-Ostad
  • Eqbal Redha Ashour
  • Eqbal Saad Al-Subaie
  • Essa Al-Yousifi

F: 21 names

  • Fadhel Jamal Al-Osaimi
  • Fadhel Waleed Al-Omani
  • Fahad Al-Sahli
  • Fahad Behbehani
  • Fajer
  • Fajer Al-Mutairi
  • Fajer Maqseed
  • Falah
  • Falah Sattam Al-Marri
  • Farah Al-Essa
  • Fatima Abdulhussain Bushehri
  • Fatima Al-Kandari
  • Fatima Al-Sabeeh
  • Fawaz Emad Al-Failakawi
  • Fawzia Al-Bannai
  • Fawzia Marafie
  • Fayez Dhari Al-Enezi
  • Fuhaid
  • Fuhaid Al-Azmi
  • Fuhaid Al-Subaie
  • Fuhaid Al-Tamimi

G: 15 names

  • Ghadeer Al-Shammari
  • Ghadeer Hamza Marafie
  • Ghadeer Mubarak Al-Kharafi
  • Ghalia Al-Awadhi
  • Ghalia Al-Kharafi
  • Ghalia Behbehani
  • Ghanim
  • Ghanim Al-Qahtani
  • Ghanim Fawaz Al-Fares
  • Ghanima
  • Ghanima Al-Tabtabaei
  • Ghanima Sattam Al-Adwani
  • Ghazi Abdulwahab Al-Sahli
  • Ghazlan Al-Mutairi
  • Ghazlan Al-Shammari

H: 37 names

  • Habib Abdulmohsen Marafie
  • Hadi Al-Osaimi
  • Hadi Nawaf Al-Hajri
  • Haifa Al-Dosari
  • Haifa Al-Sharhan
  • Haifa Qabazard
  • Hala Hamad Bahman
  • Hamad Al-Daihani
  • Hamza Abdullah Maqseed
  • Hamza Ammar Al-Saleh
  • Hanan Al-Mulla
  • Hanan Marafie
  • Hani Akbar
  • Hani Al-Qazwini
  • Hassan Al-Hasawi
  • Hassan Jassim Al-Rifai
  • Hassan Khuraibet
  • Haya Abdulsamad Al-Mahri
  • Haya Abdulwahab Al-Rashed
  • Hazza Nabil Al-Rashidi
  • Hessa
  • Hessa Abdal
  • Hessa Al-Qahtani
  • Hessa Al-Sabti
  • Hila Al-Rashidi
  • Hind Hadi Al-Dosari
  • Hind Ibrahim Al-Roudhan
  • Hisham Al-Awadhi
  • Hisham Salman Al-Najjar
  • Huda Al-Ateeqi
  • Humoud
  • Humoud Al-Adwani
  • Humoud Al-Ajeel
  • Hussa
  • Hussa Al-Shamlan
  • Hussa Falah Al-Dhafiri
  • Hussain Al-Rujaib

I: 3 names

  • Iman Al-Abdulhadi
  • Iman Al-Dhafiri
  • Ismail Al-Kandari

J: 22 names

  • Jaafar Abul
  • Jaber Al-Najjar
  • Jaber Al-Yaseen
  • Jaber Falah Al-Shammari
  • Jamal Al-Haddad
  • Jamal Al-Qazwini
  • Jamal Essa Al-Abduljalil
  • Jarrah
  • Jarrah Al-Dakheel
  • Jarrah Al-Qenaei
  • Jassim
  • Jassim Ammar Al-Freih
  • Jassim Ghuloum
  • Jawaher Al-Asfour
  • Jawaher Al-Attar
  • Jawaher Al-Jazzaf
  • Jawaher Nasser Al-Otaibi
  • Jawhar
  • Jawza Al-Hajri
  • Jawza Dakheel Al-Qahtani
  • Jood Al-Emadi
  • Jood Al-Mudhaf

K: 8 names

  • Kadhem Al-Matrouk
  • Karam
  • Khalifa
  • Khalifa Al-Nisf
  • Khalifa Al-Yousifi
  • Khuloud Al-Fulaij
  • Khuloud Al-Hasawi
  • Khuraibet

L: 11 names

  • Lamia Fahad Al-Hendi
  • Latifa Al-Roumi
  • Layla Al-Adwani
  • Layla Al-Jouan
  • Loay
  • Loay Al-Wazzan
  • Lujain Al-Ameeri
  • Lujain Al-Kazemi
  • Lujain Al-Shammari
  • Lulwa
  • Lulwa Al-Roumi

M: 60 names

  • Maha Jaber Buyabes
  • Mai Al-Othman
  • Mai Al-Shawwaf
  • Majed Abdulrahman Al-Ayyar
  • Majed Al-Osaimi
  • Majed Fahad Al-Baqsami
  • Majed Khalifa Al-Sarraf
  • Manal Al-Saadoun
  • Manal Dhari Al-Harbi
  • Mansour Al-Sarraf
  • Mansour Al-Zanki
  • Mansour Humoud Al-Babtain
  • Maqseed
  • Mariam Al-Adsani
  • Marzouq
  • Marzouq Al-Abduljalil
  • Marzouq Al-Tuwaijri
  • Mashael Al-Ajmi
  • Mashael Al-Fadhli
  • Mashael Al-Otaibi
  • Masouma Al-Mahri
  • Mazen Al-Jassar
  • Meshal Al-Adsani
  • Meshal Al-Muzaini
  • Mishaal Faisal Al-Tamimi
  • Mishaal Loay Al-Harbi
  • Mishari
  • Mohalhal
  • Mohalhal Al-Dosari
  • Mohalhal Al-Naqeeb

M, continued

  • Mohalhal Hamad Al-Mailam
  • Mohammed Al-Arbash
  • Mohammed Al-Lanqawi
  • Mona Al-Sayer
  • Mona Ammar Al-Tarrah
  • Moudhi
  • Moudhi Al-Sahli
  • Moudhi Nayef Al-Mutairi
  • Mousa Abdulhameed Al-Attar
  • Mousa Al-Enezi
  • Mousa Al-Mazidi
  • Mousa Nouri Al-Marzouq
  • Mubarak Al-Fadhli
  • Mubarak Al-Marri
  • Mubarak Al-Muwaizri
  • Mubarak Shuaib Al-Sayegh
  • Munira
  • Munira Al-Harbi
  • Munira Al-Naqi
  • Munira Al-Sahli
  • Munira Bin Naji
  • Munira Mansour Ashkanani
  • Murtadha Hisham Al-Arbash
  • Mustafa Al-Jouan
  • Mustafa Al-Kooh
  • Mustafa Qais Al-Jazzaf
  • Mutlaq
  • Mutlaq Al-Hajri
  • Mutlaq Al-Subaie
  • Mutlaq Al-Tamimi

N: 25 names

  • Nabil Al-Mutawa
  • Nabil Behbehani
  • Nada Al-Enezi
  • Nada Saad Jawhar
  • Nadia Al-Dosari
  • Nadia Fayez Al-Qatami
  • Najla Al-Misbah
  • Najla Dehrab
  • Najla Karam
  • Najla Sami Al-Osaimi
  • Nasser Al-Muhailan
  • Nasser Al-Nafisi
  • Nasser Tawfiq Al-Awadhi
  • Nawal Al-Khaldi
  • Nayef Al-Subaie
  • Nayef Hassan Al-Muwaizri
  • Nouf Sulaiman Al-Kazemi
  • Nouf Ziad Al-Musallam
  • Noura Hazza Al-Ajmi
  • Noura Saqer Al-Wugayan
  • Nouri
  • Nouri Haidar Al-Qallaf
  • Nouri Omar Al-Azmi
  • Nouriya
  • Nouriya Emad Al-Asfour

O: 7 names

  • Obaid Al-Dhafiri
  • Obaid Mohammed Al-Otaibi
  • Osama Abdulkareem Al-Subaie
  • Osama Riyadh Al-Sane
  • Othman Al-Otaibi
  • Othman Al-Rubaian
  • Othman Al-Shaheen

Q: 4 names

  • Qais Dawood Al-Shatti
  • Qutaiba
  • Qutaiba Al-Ansari
  • Qutaiba Jamal Al-Anjari

R: 22 names

  • Rakan Al-Azmi
  • Rakan Al-Mutairi
  • Rakan Al-Otaibi
  • Rakan Al-Tamimi
  • Rasha Al-Wazzan
  • Rasha Bashar Al-Saif
  • Rasha Emad Al-Khaldi
  • Rashed Al-Ostad
  • Rashed Al-Qabandi
  • Rashed Al-Tamimi
  • Rawan Bader Al-Abdulmughni
  • Rawan Bukhamseen
  • Rawan Mutlaq Al-Marri
  • Reem Al-Khaldi
  • Reem Al-Rashed
  • Reem Bader Al-Bloushi
  • Reema Al-Khaldi
  • Rehab Al-Sager
  • Retaj
  • Retaj Al-Emadi
  • Riyadh Bourisli
  • Riyadh Fayez Lari

S: 43 names

  • Saad Al-Abdulhadi
  • Sabeeka
  • Sabeeka Al-Baijan
  • Safar
  • Sakina Bushehri
  • Saleh Al-Zaben
  • Saleh Bushehri
  • Salem Al-Naqeeb
  • Salman Adnan Behbehani
  • Salman Al-Turkait
  • Salman Majed Al-Khashti
  • Sameera Abdulmohsen Karam
  • Sami Wael Safar
  • Sana Al-Jarallah
  • Saqer
  • Saqer Al-Roudhan
  • Saqer Nayef Al-Rashidi
  • Sara Al-Qattan
  • Sattam Bandar Al-Ajmi
  • Saud Fuhaid Al-Fadhli
  • Shahad Al-Sumait

S, continued

  • Shahad Dashti
  • Shaima Al-Farsi
  • Shaima Al-Nafisi
  • Shamayel
  • Shamayel Nawaf Al-Nisf
  • Shamlan
  • Shamlan Al-Jalahma
  • Shamlan Loay Al-Dabbous
  • Sharifa Bahman
  • Sheikha
  • Sheikha Abdulrahman Al-Sharrah
  • Sheikha Al-Qahtani
  • Shuaib Al-Mudhaf
  • Shurooq Al-Ghanim
  • Souad Al-Shaya
  • Souad Hamza Al-Hajri
  • Sulaiman Al-Jeraiwi
  • Sulaiman Al-Khamis
  • Sulaiman Ashkanani
  • Sulaiman Bassam Al-Shammari
  • Sultan Al-Marri
  • Sultan Al-Rashidi

T: 20 names

  • Tahani Fahad Al-Dosari
  • Tahani Ibrahim Al-Bader
  • Tahani Sulaiman Al-Ghanim
  • Taiba
  • Taiba Al-Daihani
  • Taiba Talal Al-Bahar
  • Talal Al-Sahli
  • Talal Riyadh Al-Moumen
  • Tareq Al-Daihani
  • Tareq Al-Duwaisan
  • Tareq Dawood Al-Mulla
  • Tawfiq Al-Haddad
  • Thamer Al-Ajmi
  • Thamer Al-Khayyat
  • Thamer Tawfiq Al-Thuwaini
  • Thunayan
  • Thunayan Al-Hajri
  • Thunayan Al-Shaiji
  • Thunayan Al-Shuaib
  • Turki Mubarak Al-Qahtani

W: 11 names

  • Wadha
  • Wadha Al-Adwani
  • Wadha Al-Mutairi
  • Wael Al-Jarallah
  • Wael Salem Al-Bastaki
  • Wafa Dashti
  • Wafa Hisham Al-Daihani
  • Waleed Al-Marri
  • Waleed Al-Rifai
  • Wasmiya
  • Wasmiya Ismail Al-Shamlan

Y: 13 names

  • Yahya Al-Ajmi
  • Yahya Sami Al-Ghunaim
  • Yaqoub
  • Yaqoub Ahmad Al-Sayer
  • Yaqoub Lari
  • Yasmeen Hisham Al-Zaben
  • Younes Al-Bastaki
  • Younes Anas Al-Sumait
  • Younes Faisal Al-Saffar
  • Yousef Al-Dhafiri
  • Yousef Al-Sane
  • Yousef Bushehri
  • Yousef Tareq Al-Kandari

Z: 8 names

  • Zahra Bassam Qabazard
  • Zainab Al-Matrouk
  • Zakariya Al-Abdulrazzaq
  • Zakariya Al-Bahar
  • Zalzalah
  • Ziad Al-Harbi
  • Ziad Al-Kulaib
  • Ziad Bashar Akbar