Entry № 6342 · Arabic origin

Manal Manal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-NAHL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Achievement, attainment"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "achievement, attainment".

Manal (منال) is the Arabic word for "achievement" or "that which is attained." An Arabic feminine name expressing fulfillment of goals.

Manal al-Sharif (born 1979) is the Saudi women's rights activist who led the "Women2Drive" campaign.

Achievement. The Arabic.

The name in its native script.

منال
Transliteration
Manāl
Pronunciation
/ məˈnɑːl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Manal stands.

Manal 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.

Manals before her.

Real people
Manal al-Sharif
Saudi women's rights activist.
born 1979
In fiction
Manal
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Manal.

The number behind Manal.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Manal reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.