Ikram — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: ك-ر-م (k-r-m), "to be noble, generous, of worth". Ikrām is the verbal noun of the fourth form akrama: the act of honouring someone, treating a person as precious. It is generosity aimed at a guest or a parent rather than generosity in the abstract — the deliberate showing of respect.

From the same root: karam (nobility of character, open-handedness), karīm (noble, generous — also al-Karīm, one of the divine names), akram (more or most generous), kirām (the noble ones, plural), karāma (dignity, and also a mark of honour), takrīm (the conferring of honour), mukarram (honoured), and the names Karīm, Karīma, Akram and Mukarram. The word closes Surah ar-Rahman in the address to God as Lord of Majesty and Honour, dhū al-jalāl wa al-ikrām, at 55:78, where the same phrase also appears earlier at 55:27.

Spellings: Ikram, İkram (Turkish), Ikram (Indonesian and Urdu), Ikram or Ikrame (French and Maghrebi), إكرام.

Pronunciation: ik-RĀM, stress on the second syllable, which holds a long ā. The k is a plain English k, not the deeper qāf.

Feminine and masculine: Ikram is given to both girls and boys, more often to girls in the Arab east and to boys in Turkey and South Asia. The clearly masculine name from this root is Akram.