Fayha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FAY-ha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Fayha is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Fayha mean?
Arabic
Al-Fayha is a traditional epithet of the city of Damascus.
Is Fayha a girl's or a boy's name?
Fayha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fayha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Fayha, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 15 girls.
2025 had more girls named Fayha than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Fayha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were given Fayha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,781, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Fayha 9
- Faiha 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Fayha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 13 | #2,186 |
| 2014 | 15 | #1,976 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
Names like Fayha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Rahma, Abeeha, Safaa, Ayah, Zaha, Amira, Khadija, Huda
Other spellings of Fayha
Faiha
Names related to Fayha
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Fayha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fayha, updated 20 October 2026.