Hayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ha-YAH
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,509 for girls
Hayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “modesty, shyness”. In 2025 it ranked 2,509th for girls in the UK (11 babies).
What does Hayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Haya
“modesty, shyness”
A well-known hadith calls haya, modesty, a branch of faith.
Meaning borrowed from Haya.
Is Hayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Hayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,509th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 25,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were named Hayah, making it the 2,509th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 14 girls.
2025 had more girls named Hayah than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Hayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 127 girls in the UK were given Hayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #376, up from #2,509 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,438th in England and Wales.
Hayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
Names like Hayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Hiba, Nusaybah, Ruqayyah, Aaliyah, Rahma, Hidayah, Safaa, Huda
Other spellings of Hayah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, 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, “Hayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hayah, updated 20 October 2026.