Random Arabic Name Generator

Arabic names are built from a small set of parts that can be combined in many ways. The core is the ism, the given name: Muhammad, Ahmed, Omar, Ali, Yusuf and Layla, Fatima, Maryam, Zaynab, Nour. Then comes the nasab, a chain of fathers marked with ibn or bin (son of) or bint (daughter of), so Umar ibn al-Khattab means Umar, son of al-Khattab. A nisba like al-Masri (the Egyptian), al-Baghdadi (from Baghdad), or al-Zahrani (of the Zahran tribe) marks origin, and a laqab is an honorific such as al-Rashid (the rightly guided) or al-Siddiq (the truthful). Parents are also known by their eldest child: Abu Bakr, Umm Kulthum.

Modern usage differs by country. Egyptians and North Africans typically use given name plus father's name plus surname (Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud); Gulf families keep the bin/bint chain and add a tribal name (Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan); Levantine surnames often stem from trades or Christian family names (Haddad, Khoury, Najjar, Sabbagh). Names beginning with Abd (servant of) are always followed by one of the names of God, as in Abdullah or Abdul Rahman.

When picking a name from the list, decide the region and era first, since a Gulf name and a Moroccan name of the same period will look quite different on the page.