Entry № 4924 · Arabic origin

Jihad Jihad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jee-HAHD /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Struggle"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "struggle".

Jihad is from the Arabic Jihād.

Struggle — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

جهاد

Transliteration: Jihād
Pronunciation: / dʒiːˈhɑːd /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Jihad stands.

Jihad does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Jihads before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Greater Jihad / Quran 22:78

Arabic struggle striving + Greater Jihad spiritual struggle against lower self + Lesser Jihad outward defense + Quran 22:78 Strive in the cause of Allah + Islamic ethical heritage

Quran

Names connected to Jihad.

Numerology

The number behind Jihad.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jihad reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.