Hayfa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAY-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Hayfa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “slender, graceful”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Hayfa mean?
Arabic
“slender, graceful”
Classical Arabic name describing a slender, graceful woman, a familiar image in Arabic poetry.
Is Hayfa a girl's or a boy's name?
Hayfa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hayfa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Hayfa, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2012, with 6 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hayfa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Hayfa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
Names like Hayfa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hiba, Hafsa, Huda, Rahma, Zainab, Habiba, Husna, Safaa, Zaha, Aaliyah, Abeeha
Names related to Hayfa
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, “Hayfa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hayfa, updated 20 October 2026.