Most Popular Baby Girl Names in Jordan 2025 and Their Meanings

Misk was once again the name most often given to baby girls in Jordan in 2025. According to the year-end statement of the Civil Status and Passports Department (CSPD), reported in the press in January 2026, the order was Misk, Watin, Salma and Maryam. This time no counts were released; all we have is the ranking.

Below we present that short list as it is and compare it with the 2024 top five (with counts for the top three) and with the more detailed 2023 list. We do not extend the list and we do not estimate missing figures.

The five names on the 2024 and 2025 lists

The department announced four girls' names for 2025 and five for 2024. Together they make five names; Ayla appears only in 2024.

The figures refer to births of Jordanian citizens across the whole country. In total, 155,808 Jordanian births were registered in 2024 and 151,577 in 2025. The full tables in the department's annual report were published as images and could not be read, so we stay with the names reported in the press.

A three-year rank ladder

The 2023 list is longer: 25 names, with counts for the top 10. That lets us follow these five names one more year back (number of babies in brackets):

• Misk has led for three years. From 2023 to 2024, 278 more babies were given the name, and its lead over the second name grew from 359 to 792.
• Salma and Watin swapped places. In 2024, 155 fewer babies were named Salma and 68 fewer Watin; the gap between them shrank from 199 to 112. In the 2025 year-end ranking Watin rose to second and Salma was third, although a partial release covering births up to 21 May 2025 had listed the top three as Misk, Salma and Maryam.
• Maryam two places higher. Sixth in 2023, Maryam was fourth in both 2024 and 2025. The 2023 numbers four and five, ماسة (Masa, "diamond") and زينة (Zeina, "adornment"), do not appear on the lists published for the next two years.
• Ayla, a one-year appearance. The Turkish-origin Ayla was fifth in 2024; it was not on the published 25-name list for 2023 and is not in the 2025 top four. Aylin, tenth in 2023, is a different name.

The limits of a short list

The three years were not published in the same detail. For 2025 there is only the order of the top four girls' names: no counts for any name, and nothing below fourth place. For 2024 the top five were released with counts for the top three; for 2023, 25 names with counts for the top 10. The counts for the fourth and fifth names of 2024 are missing, and the releases do not say whether different spellings of one name are counted separately.

So we cannot say that more babies were named Misk in 2025, or fewer Salma. What we can report is the change in order.

The words behind the names

Four of the five names are Arabic and one is Turkish. Three have a link to the Qur'an, but of different kinds:

• Maryam is the name of the Virgin Mary, the only woman named in the Qur'an; Sura 19 bears her name.
• Misk occurs in the Qur'an as a word, not as a personal name: in Surat al-Mutaffifin the drink of paradise is described as one "whose seal is musk" (83:26). The word came into Arabic from Middle Persian.
• Watin is the Arabic word for the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart, and it occurs in Surat al-Haqqa (69:46). Sources give no separate meaning for it as a name; it is the word itself that is used.
• Salma is a classical Arabic woman's name meaning "safe, secure"; it does not occur in the Qur'an.
• Ayla is Turkish for "moonlight, halo of the moon". The Jordanian source writes it آيلا; the table uses the established spelling أيلا, and both come to 42.

The Abjad view

We calculate the Abjad value from the letters of the name's established Arabic spelling: letters are counted plainly, an alif with hamza or madda counts 1, and a final ى counts 10 like ي.

• First letters: two of the four 2025 names begin with the Fire letter م (Misk, Maryam). Watin starts with the Air letter و and Salma with the Water letter س; none starts with an Earth letter. This follows the classical classification used on our site; some authors classify the letters differently.
• Highest and lowest: on the 2025 list the highest value is Watin (وتين) with 466, of which 400 comes from a single letter, ت. The lowest is Misk (مسك) with 120. Of all five names, Ayla (أيلا) is lowest with 42.
• Maryam letter by letter: مريم = م (40) + ر (200) + ي (10) + م (40) = 290. The two mims bring 80 between them, while 200 of the total comes from a single letter, ر. No spelling or value is more auspicious than another, but the spelling must be settled before any calculation.

The gap between Watin's 466 and Misk's 120 does not make one name superior. In the Abjad tradition, what counts is the balance the name's letters and elements strike with the parents' names, and the mother's name also enters the baby's star chart (yıldızname). Two families considering Maryam can start from the same 290 and arrive at quite different pictures.

Misk's three years, and what comes next

Until the 2026 data is released we make no ranking forecast. Name by name, the three years look like this:

• Misk: first in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
• Watin and Maryam: the two climbers; Watin 3 → 3 → 2, Maryam 6 → 4 → 4.
• Salma: 2 → 2 → 3; one place lower, but in the top three for three years.
• Ayla: seen on the 2024 list only.

Only the department's 2026 data will show whether this movement continues. When choosing a name, popularity is just one data point; meaning, spelling and harmony with the family's names are the real parts of the decision.

This article is for information only. Abjad interpretations are based on tradition; they make no definitive judgement or guarantee about any name.

Source: Jordan Civil Status and Passports Department (CSPD), annual report and statements, as reported in the press (Akhbar Hayat, Ammon, Khaberni, Factjo). The figures refer to births of Jordanian citizens; for 2025 only the ranking was published.