Girls’ Middle and Last Names

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum Wa-Rahmatullāhi Wa-Barakātuh.

Rasulullah ﷺhad advised the Sahabah to choose beautiful names with good meanings and would even suggest different, better names for those who had inappropriate ones. Thus, it is found in the Ahadith:

“إ ن كم ت دعو يوم الق يامة بأسمائ كم وأسماء آبائ كم: ق ال رسول الله ﷺ: ق ال،ع أب ي الدرداء

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On the Day of Judgment, you will surely be called by your names and by your father’s names; so, give yourselves good names.

It was customary since before the time of Rasulullah ﷺ, for children to be named with single names along with attribution to their fathers, and in some occasions, they would be attributed to their mothers with the objective of identification and preservation of the

lineage. However, in the last few centuries, since identification has become the sole concern, children are named with multiple names, one of which is used to address them normally. A similar practice was also found in the previous times when wives were attributed to their husbands and slaves to their masters which was all done for the sake of identification. [1] Hence, there will be no harm in placing the middle and/or last names of the father into the daughter’s name as a means of identification.[2]

And Allah Ta’ala Knows Best.