Contrary to Kripke’s ideas, and to some extent to those of Frege and Russell, I argue in this paper that a proper name is a description that operates as a reality indicator. In the realm of Divine attributes and names of God, I look at the topic from a different perspective; names of God and statements such as: ‘God is the Most Merciful’ and ‘Mary is the virgin mother’ can be looked at as descriptions and at the same time might have a status higher than that of Kripke’s rigid designation. I first discuss the Islamic views, then the western views, and at the end of this paper I try to offer a new sketch of the order of these divine attributes.