MEANING & HISTORY
What does Mastura mean?
The specialist exact-name account identifies Mastura with Arabic مستورة, covered or hidden, and explains modest as a figurative interpretation. It separately notes that another Arabic spelling has a written or recorded sense.
Latin letters alone do not identify that different spelling. The documented covered-name account can be explained without assigning clothing, personality or religious practice to a bearer.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
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Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
MASTURACSV record 16,072 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Mastura in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Mastura
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Maura♀Irish Mary-name form; also Latin Maura
- Mansour♂One who is helped to victory
- Mara♀Bitter in Hebrew, or a Maria/Tamara short form
- Martha♀Lady or mistress of the household
- Maruja·Documented María familiar form
- Matea♀Feminine Mateo-name form; gift of the Lord
- Mauro♂North African or Moorish; from Latin Maurus
- Madonna♀My lady
What rhymes with Mastura?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
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- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- QuranicNames — Mastura (opens in a new tab)
Exact Arabic مستورة name account, covered/hidden and figurative modest; alternative مسطورة written/recorded explicitly kept distinct. Specialist secondary account, not a claim that the Quran attests every modern Latin spelling.