Hayaat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ha-YAT
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Hayaat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Hayaat mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hayat; also used in Turkish
“life”
Meaning borrowed from Hayat.
Is Hayaat a girl's or a boy's name?
Hayaat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hayaat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,344th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 58% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Hayaat, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 20 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hayaat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 55 girls in the UK were given Hayaat or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #676, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
- Hayat 43
- Hayaat 12
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Hayaat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 20 | #1,592 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 12 | #2,325 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
Names like Hayaat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Hiba, Safa, Hafsa, Rehmat, Ayat, Zainab, Amal, Nusaybah, Huda, Rahma, Raya
Other spellings of Hayaat
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, “Hayaat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hayaat, updated 20 October 2026.