Mishkat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MISH-kaht
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Mishkat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “lamp niche”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Mishkat mean?
Arabic
“lamp niche”
From the Qur'an's Light Verse, which likens God's light to a lamp in a niche (mishkat).
Is Mishkat a girl's or a boy's name?
Mishkat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mishkat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 117% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Mishkat, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Mishkat of any year since it first appeared, in 2007.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Mishkat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
Names like Mishkat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Saanvi, Manreet, Gurnaaz, Japneet, Gursifat, Gursanjh, Aavya, Nimrat, Kudrat, Aarvi, Aadhya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mishkat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mishkat, updated 20 October 2026.