Entry № 10906 · Arabic origin

Umama Umama — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-MAH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Granddaughter of Prophet"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "granddaughter of prophet".

Umama is from the Arabic Umāma. Arabic Umāma Umama bint Abi al-As granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad + daughter of Zaynab bint Muhammad central to pan-Islamic Prophetic heritage Umāma carried by Prophet during prayer hadith narrative + Sahih Bukhari central to Islamic family-life heritage.

Granddaughter of Prophet — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

أمامة
Transliteration
Umāma
Pronunciation
/ uːˈmɑː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Umama stands.

Umama 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.

Umamas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Umama bint Abi al-As
Granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad + daughter of Zaynab bint Muhammad + Prophet carried her during prayer Sahih Bukhari + Islamic family-life heritage
Islamic tradition

Names connected to Umama.

The number behind Umama.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Umama reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.