Names

Means “appellations, names” in Arabic. This was the name of a daughter of Abu Bakr, the first caliph of the Muslims.

Means “supreme” in Arabic.

Danish form of Aslaug.

Swedish form of Aslaug.

Means “genuine, real” in Turkish.

Derived from the Old Norse elements áss meaning “god” and laug possibly meaning “betrothed woman”.

Old Norse and Icelandic form of Aslaug.

Derived from Turkish aslan meaning “lion” combined with the Turkish military title beg meaning “chieftain, master”.

From Turkic arslan meaning “lion”. This was a byname or title borne by several medieval Turkic rulers, including the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan (a byname meaning “brave lion”) who drove the Byzantines from Anatolia in the 11th century. The author C. S. Lewis later used the name Aslan for the main protagonist (a lion) in his Chronicles of Narnia series of books, first appearing in 1950.

Old Norse form of Ask.