Baraka (Name)

Baraka (transliteration: Baraka, Arabic: بركة) is an Arabic name for girls that means “blessings”, “blessedness”, “good fortune”, “increase”, “prosperity”, “abundance (of good things)”.¹²

There are three female Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Baraka:

• Baraka bint Tha`labah بركة بنت ثعلبة
• Baraka al-Habashiyyah بركة الحبشية
• Baraka bint Yasaar بركة بنت يسار

Below is the name Baraka written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Baraka written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Firuzabadi, al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ (d. 1414 CE), الـبَرَكَةُ.
2. Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, al-Muʿjam al-Wasīṭ (1998), الْـبركَة.