Hayaa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ha-YAH
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,512 for girls
Hayaa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “modesty, shyness”. In 2025 it ranked 1,512th for girls in the UK (21 babies).
What does Hayaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Haya
“modesty, shyness”
A well-known hadith calls haya, modesty, a branch of faith.
Is Hayaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Hayaa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hayaa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,512among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 30% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were named Hayaa, making it the 1,512th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,480th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 25 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hayaa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 127 girls in the UK were given Hayaa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #376, up from #1,512 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,454th in England and Wales.
Hayaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #1,512 |
| 2024 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 2023 | 25 | #1,360 |
| 2022 | 17 | #1,794 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 2019 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 16 | #1,900 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
Names like Hayaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hiba Hafsa Ayah Zainab Rahma Huda Abeeha Nusaybah Safaa Khadija Rehmat
Other spellings of Hayaa
Names related to Hayaa
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
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, “Hayaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hayaa, updated 20 October 2026.