Ala-ud-din as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ala-ud-din

What is the meaning of the name Ala-ud-din ?

The baby name Ala-ud-din is a Male name and is pronounced ah-LAH-ud-DEEN (Arabic: ʿAlā ad-Dīn, [ʕaˈlaː adˈdiːn]).

Ala-ud-din is Arabic in Origin.

Ala-ud-din is an Arabic honorific compound from ʿAlāʾ (“exaltation, nobility, loftiness”) and al-Dīn (“the faith, religion”), yielding the sense “exaltation of the faith” or “nobility of religion.” In Arabic pronunciation the article assimilates before the sun-letter dāl, so al-Dīn is said ad-Dīn; in Persianate and South Asian transliteration this often surfaces as ud-Dīn, producing the widely used form Ala-ud-din.

Carried across the Islamic world through Arabic, Persian, and Turkic prestige cultures, the name appears in medieval courts and scholarship - most famously with Sultan Alauddin Khalji of Delhi (r. 1296–1316) - and remains popular in Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Turkish, and Malay contexts. Common variants include Alāʾ al-Dīn, Ala ad-Din, Ala-ud-din, Alauddin, Alaeddin (Turkish), and the anglicized Aladdin, familiar from the 1001 Nights tale. It belongs to a larger -ud-Din naming tradition (e.g., Shams-ud-din, Nur-ud-din). Short forms such as Alaa/Ala or Din sometimes occur in everyday use.

⚙ We can't find Ala-ud-din in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. However you look at it, very few people share it.