Ayman ( ar, أيمن, also spelled as Aiman, Aimen, Aymen, or Eymen in the Latin alphabet) is an Arabic masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. It is derived from the Arabic Semitic root () for ''right'', and literally means ''righteous'', ''he who is on the right'', ''right-handed'', ''blessed'' or ''lucky''.
An early bearer of the name was Ayman ibn Ubayd, an early
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
It is a masculine name in the Arabic language. However, in Pakistan, Ayman is used both as a masculine and feminine name. This may be because of the popular woman figure
Umm Ayman
Baraka bint Thaʿlaba ( ar, بَـرَكَـة بنت ثَعلَبَة), commonly known by her kunya Umm Ayman ( ar, أمّ أيمن, links=no), was an early Muslim and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
She was an Abyssinian slave o ...
, who raised Muhammad, whom parents name their daughter after. Her first name was ''Barakah'', and Umm Ayman was her kunya, with "Umm" meaning ''mother of'', and Ayman being the name of her eldest son, Ayman ibn Ubayd.
In Turkey, the name is spelled as ''Eymen''. Eymen was the second most popular given name for boys born in the country in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
In Malaysia, Aiman was the 24th most popular name for male newborns in 2012.
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
and son of
Umm Ayman
Baraka bint Thaʿlaba ( ar, بَـرَكَـة بنت ثَعلَبَة), commonly known by her kunya Umm Ayman ( ar, أمّ أيمن, links=no), was an early Muslim and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
She was an Abyssinian slave o ...
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Aiman Khwajah Sultan
Aiman Khwajah Sultan was a Prince of Eastern Moghulistan and the son of Ahmad Alaq, who ruled as the khan of Eastern Moghulistan from 1487 to 1503.
As a grandson of Yunus Khan, Aiman Khwajah Sultan was the first cousin of the Mughal Emperor Bab ...
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (June 19, 1951 – July 31, 2022) was an Egyptian-born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until his death.
Al-Zawahiri graduated from Cairo University with ...
, leader of
al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
, 2011-2022
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Ayman Al-Hussaini
Ayman Al Husaini is a Kuwaiti football midfielder who played for Kuwait in the 1996 Asian Cup. He also played for Kazma SC
Kazma Sporting Club ( ar, نادي كاظمة الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional association football club. Fo ...
Aimen Dean
Aimen Dean ( ar, ایمن دین) is a former member of al-Qaeda. In 1998, he was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service and became an MI6 spy.
Early life
Dean was born in Saudi Arabia. By the age of 12, he had memorised the Quran (thereby ...
, founding member of
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
Ayman Majali
Ayman Hazza' al-Majali (Arabic: أيمن هزاع المجالي) is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He is the son of Jordan's late Premier Hazza' al-Majali. As a Member of Jordan's House of Representatives he ...
, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan
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Ayman Al-Hujaili
Ayman Al-Hujaili ( ar, أيمن الحجيلي; born 1 July 1998) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as an attacking-midfielder for Al-Khaleej.
Career
Ayman Al-Hujaili started his career at the youth teams of hometown club A ...
, Saudi footballer
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Ayman Ftayni
Ayman Ftayni (Arabic: ايمن فتيني; born 27 December 1994 in Riyadh) is a Saudi football player who currently plays as a midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusiv ...
, Saudi footballer
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Ayman Al-Salek
Ayman Al-Salek ( ar, أيمن السالك; born in Syria) is a Syrian television actor and voice actor.
Early life
He was born in Syria and work with Venus Center for Dubbing since in many of anime and cartoon and he work in many series Syri ...
Aymen Hussein
Aymen Hussein Ghadhban ( ar, أيمن حسين; born 21 January 1996) is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays as a striker for Qatar Stars League club Al-Markhiya and the Iraqi national team.
Club career
In 2009, Aymen was spotted as a ...
Ayman Adais
Ayman Adais (born June 28, 1978), also Ayman Idais, is a retired professional basketball player who last played for the Jordanian team Zain.
, Jordanian basketball player
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Ayman Cherkaoui
Ayman Cherkaoui is an international jurist in climate change law, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact in Morocco, and Lead Counsel for Climate Change at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law in Montreal Que ...
, Moroccan climate change lawyer
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Aiman Hakim Ridza
Aiman Hakim bin Ridza Abdoh (born 17 January 1989) is a Malaysian actor and singer. He rose to fame in Malaysian entertainment showbiz when he became a contestant of the TV3's reality television series, ''Mentor'' Season 5 and best known for h ...
, Malaysian actor and singer
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Aiman Witjaksono
Aiman Witjaksono (born in Jakarta, July 8, 1978) is an Indonesian journalist, news anchor and interviewer at RCTI. Previously Witjaksono worked for approximately 10 years at Kompas TV as a broadcaster. On RCTI, his final role was as anchor of the ...
Ayman al-Fayed
Ayman al-Fayed ( ar, ايمن الفايد ) (June 19, 1965 – February 15, 2008) was a Palestinian commander of al-Quds Brigades, the armed branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine ( ar, حركة ا ...
Ayman Ben Hassine
Ayman Ben Hassine (born 8 November 1980) is a Tunisian cyclist.
Palmares
;2000
:2nd National Road Race Championships
;2004
:1st National Road Race Championships
:1st Stage 1 Tour d'Egypte
;2005
:1st National Road Race Championships
:1st Stag ...
, Tunisian cyclist
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Aymen Bouchhioua
Aymen Bouchhioua (born 24 August 1979) is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Bouchhioua was born in Tripoli, Libya.
He was signed by FC Aarau on 4 February 2008. and was formerly on trial with SC Paderborn ...
, Tunisian footballer
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Aymen Ben Ahmed
Aymen Ben Ahmed (born 1 March 1986) is a Tunisian athlete specializing in the 110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer O ...
, Tunisian athlete
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Ayman Hefny
Ayman Hefny ( ar, أيمن حفني; born 31 December 1985) is an Egyptian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek and the Egypt national team.
Honours
Zamalek
*Egyptian Premier League:(3) 201 ...
, Egyptian footballer
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Ayman Yahya
Ayman Yahya Salem Ahmed, commonly known as Ayman Yahya ( ar, أيمن يحيى سالم, born 14 May 2001) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Saudi Professional League club Al Nassr.
Personal life
He was born ...
, Saudi footballer
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Ayman Mahmoud
Ayman Mahmoud ( ar, أيمن محمود, born 1 March 1967) is an Egyptian modern pentathlon, modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
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1967 births
Living people
Egyptian male modern pen ...
, Egyptian pentathlete
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Ayman Moheb
Ayman Moheb (Arabic أيمن محب; born March 11, 1970) is an Egyptian former football striker. He was the top scorer of Egyptian Premier League (1996–97) with 17 goals playing for El Mansoura.
International career
After being the top goal ...
Ayman Jumean
Ayman Jumean (born 14 March 1961) is a Jordanian fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an ...
Ayman Mohamed Fayez
Ayman Mohamed Fayez or Ayman Alaa Eldin Mohamed Fayez (born 3 March 1991 Giza, Egypt) is an Egyptian fencer who competed in the 2012 Olympics and 2016 Olympics in Men's Individual Épée.
Fayez was African champion in 2009, 2012 and 2017, also w ...
, Egyptian fencer
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Ayman Shawky
Ayman Shawky Kusowa ( ar, أيمن شوقي), born on 9 December 1962, was an Egyptian international striker who played most of his career with El-Ahly and a short spell with Zamalek SC.
He worked as a teacher and a coach at the King Abdullah A ...
, Egyptian footballer
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Ayman Saied Joumaa
Ayman Saied Joumaa is a Colombian/ Lebanese national and alleged drug kingpin. The US Treasury Department alleges that his organization launders money and traffics illicit drugs in the Americas, Middle East, Europe, and Africa, and that he has tie ...
, Colombian-Lebanese drug trafficker
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Aymen Ben Amor
Aymen Ben Amor (born 7 September 1985) is a Tunisian footballer who plays as right back for FC Hammamet.
Honours
;Club
*CAF Champions League: 2011
*CAF Confederation Cup: 2007, 2008
* Tunisian Ligue 1: 2009–10, 10–11, 11–12
*Tunisian Cup ...
, Tunisian footballer
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Aiman Abdallah
Aiman Abdallah (born 1965) is a German television presenter of Egyptian descent for the German television show ''Galileo'' at ProSieben and former rugby national player. Born in Bad Kreuznach, he played for the Berliner SV 1892.
Life and ca ...
, German-Egyptian TV presenter
* Aimen Demai, Tunisian footballer
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Ayman Halawani
Ayman Halawani, now known as Richard Halawani, is an American entrepreneur, film producer and was head of production at Rotana's film division. He produced the first Saudi movie '' Keif al-Hal'', which included the first Saudi female actress to ...
, Saudi film producer
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Aymen Mathlouthi
Aymen Mathlouthi ( ar, أيمن المثلوثي; born 14 September 1984), also known as Balbouli, is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Étoile du Sahel.
Regarded by pundits as the best Tunisian goalkeepers and one ...
, Tunisian footballer
* Ayman Nour, Egyptian politician and former member of parliament, founder and chairman of El-Ghad Party
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Ayman Odeh
Ayman Odeh ( ar, أيمن عودة, he, אַיְּימָן עוֹדֶה; born 1 January 1975) is an Israeli Arab lawyer and politician. He is a member of Knesset and leader of the Hadash party.
Biography
Ayman Odeh was born in 1975, and raised ...
, Palestinian politician
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Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi
Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi
is a Yemeni doctor who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 627.
He is an orthopedic surgeon who graduated fro ...
Aymen Tahar
Aymen Tahar ( ar, أيمن طاهر; born 2 October 1989) is an Algerian professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Greek Super League 2 club AEL. At international level, he has represented the Algeria U20 national team.
Club ...
, British footballer of Algerian descent,
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Ayman Taher
Ayman Taher Kandil ( ar, ایمن طاهر; born January 7, 1966) is a former Egyptian goalkeeper, who played for Zamalek and Egypt. Taher was a member of the Egyptian squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup as back-up for Ahmed Shobair
Ahmed Abdela ...
, Egyptian former goalkeeper
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Ayman Zeidan
Ayman Zeidan ( ar, أيمن زيدان; born 1 September 1956) is a Syrian TV presenter, comedian, voice actor and actor of film, television, and theater. Zeidan has starred in several notable television series and shows, and gained much succe ...
, Syrian TV host, comedian, voice actor and actor of film, television, and theater
* Ayman Zohry, Egyptian demographer/geographer and expert on migration studies
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Aiman Napoli
Aiman Napoli (born 2 July 1989) is an Italian footballer. He plays as a forward for A.C.D. Sant'Angelo 1907.
Club career Pro Sesto
Born in Paderno Dugnano, in the province of Milan, Napoli started his career at Pro Sesto of Serie C1.
Internazi ...
, Italian footballer
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Aiman Al-Hagri
Aiman Saleh Al-Hagri, commonly known as Aiman Al-Hagri ( ar, أيمن صلاح عبدالله الهاجري; born 3 February 1993), is a Yemeni professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. He represented Yemen national football ...
Aiman El-Shewy
Aiman El-Shewy (born 3 February 1968) is an Egyptian judoka. He competed in the men's half-heavyweight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 19 ...
, Egyptian judoka
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Ayman Sawaf
Ayman Sawaf is a social commentator, film producer, entrepreneur, musician and author.
Sawaf has written extensively about emotional intelligence and its uses in business, parenting and personal development,
Career
Sawaf claims to be a creator ...
, author
* Ayman Otoom, Jordanian poet and novelist
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Ayman Asfari
Ayman Asfari (born 8 July 1958) is a Syrian-born British businessman. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Petrofac, a Jersey-registered multinational oilfield services company serving the oil, gas and energy production and processing industries, ...
Al-Muhtadee Billah
Crown Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah bin Hassanal Bolkiah ( ar, المهتدي بالله) (born 17 February 1974) is the eldest son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and his wife Queen Saleha. He is the Crown Prince of Brunei Darussalam and is fir ...
Abu Ayman al-Iraqi
Ali Aswad al-Jiburi (), better known by his nom de guerre as Abu Ayman al-Iraqi (), was an ISIL commander and Shura council member killed on 18 May 2016 by an airstrike in northern Iraq.
Biography Iraq war
Al-Jiburi's date of his birth is unkn ...
, top ISIL commander (1965–2014)
* Abu Ayman al-Masri, Egyptian leader of ''al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula''
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Ayman Lotfy
Ayman Lotfy (born August 30, 1968) is an Egyptian fine art photographer.
Early beginnings
Lotfy was born in Cairo, Egypt. In 1991, he graduated from the faculty of arts at the Ain Shams University. Lotfy started his career as a fashion designer ...
, Egyptian fine art photographer
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Ayman Sikseck Ayman Sikseck (or Ayman Siksik or Ayman Siksek, ar, أيمن سكسك, he, איימן סיכסק; born 1984, Jaffa) is an Israeli–Arab author, literary critic, opinion journalist and news anchor. He writes mainly in Hebrew, and his debut novel ...
, Israeli-Arab author
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Ayman Baalbaki
Ayman Baalbaki ( ar, أيمن بعلبكي; born 1975) is a Lebanese painter. He studied at the Lebanese University and at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. His large-scale expressionist portraits of fighters made h ...
Ayman Alatar
Ayman Alatar ( ar, أيمن الأعتر; born 6 March 1982) is a Libyan singer of Arabic pop music. He was the winner of ''SuperStar'', Season 2, 2004, the Arabic version of ''American Idol''.
Early life and career
Alatar was born in Tripoli ...
, Libyan singer
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Ayman El Hassouni
Ayman El Hassouni (born 22 February 1995) is a Moroccan footballer who plays for Muaither as a winger.
International career
He made his debut for the Morocco national football team on 1 December 2021 in a 2021 FIFA Arab Cup game against Palesti ...
, Moroccan footballer
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Ayman Abu Fares
Ayman Awwad Mahmoud Abu Fares ( ar, أيمن عواد محمود أبو فارس; born January 29, 1988) is a retired Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin, a striker
Striker or The Strikers may refer to:
People
*A participant in a strike ...
, Jordanian footballer
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Ayman Younes
Ayman Younes (Arabic: أيمن يونس) (born 20 February 1964) is an Egyptian retired footballer who played as a midfielder and forward. He played for Zamalek, he scored the fastest goal in Egyptian Premier League on 1990 against Suez SC afte ...
, Egyptian footballer
* Ayman Taha, senior Hamas official
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Ahmed Ayman Mansour
Ahmed Ayman Mohamed Mansour ( ar, أحمد أيمن محمد منصور; born 13 April 1994), is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League side Pyramids and the Egyptian national team as a defender.
International
He made his ...
, Egyptian footballer
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Ayman Kamel
Ayman Aly Kamel (born September 4, 1965) is an Egyptian diplomat, and the current Assistant Foreign Minister for Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. He has previously served as Ambassador of Egypt to Japan from October 2017 to O ...
, Egyptian ambassador to Japan
* Ayman Al-Hendy, Egyptian-American doctor
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Ayman Hakeem
Ayman Hakeem ( ar, أيمن حكيم; born 24 December 1959) is a Syrian football coach.
Coaching career
Hakeem started his coaching career with Al-Wahda winning the Syrian Cup in 1993. During the 1990s, he took over youth teams, Syria U20 and ...
, Syrian football coach
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Aimen Rizouk
Aimen Rizouk (born 3 August 1979) is an Algerian chess player born in Algiers. He was the first Algerian player to be awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2007.
Chess career
Rizouk won the Algerian Chess Championship in 1999. In int ...
, Algerian chess player
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Ayman Zeidan
Ayman Zeidan ( ar, أيمن زيدان; born 1 September 1956) is a Syrian TV presenter, comedian, voice actor and actor of film, television, and theater. Zeidan has starred in several notable television series and shows, and gained much succe ...
, Syrian TV host
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Aiman Khan
Aiman Muneeb (née Khan ; born on 20 November 1998) is a Pakistani actress who appears in Urdu television. She made her acting debut in 2012 with Hum TV's serial ''Mohabbat Jaye Bhar Mein'' and then appeared on many serials as Supporting role. ...
, Pakistani Actress
See also
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Abu Ayman (disambiguation) Abu Ayman is the name of:
* Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, top ISIL commander (1965–2014)
* Abu Ayman al-Masri, Egyptian leader of ''al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula''
* Sheikh Abu Ayman, Jordanian-Australian Salafi leader
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