Hayyan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- hay-YAHN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,613 for boys
Hayyan is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “lively, full of life”. In 2025 it ranked 1,613th for boys in the UK (17 babies).
What does Hayyan mean?
Arabic
“lively, full of life”
Jabir ibn Hayyan was a famous alchemist of the early Islamic world, known in medieval Europe as Geber.
Is Hayyan a girl's or a boy's name?
Hayyan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hayyan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,613th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 18,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 75% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 17 boys in the UK were named Hayyan, making it the 1,613th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,562nd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 20 boys.
2025 had more boys named Hayyan than any year since 2014.
Half of all the boys named Hayyan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 26 boys in the UK were given Hayyan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,043, up from #1,613 for this spelling alone.
- Hayyan 17
- Hayan 9
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,537th in England and Wales.
Hayyan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #1,613 |
| 2024 | 14 | #1,825 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,457 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 8 | #2,562 |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,388 |
| 2017 | 12 | #2,037 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,287 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,260 |
| 2014 | 20 | #1,357 |
| 2013 | 15 | #1,636 |
| 2012 | 8 | #2,595 |
| 2011 | 13 | #1,788 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,013 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,582 |
| 2008 | 13 | #1,696 |
| 2007 | 15 | #1,540 |
| 2006 | 9 | #1,995 |
| 2005 | 9 | #1,957 |
| 2004 | 8 | #1,983 |
| 2003 | 11 | #1,498 |
| 2002 | 4 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,458 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #2,513 |
Names like Hayyan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmed, Muhammad, Abdullah, Rayyan, Zayan, Zayaan, Hamza, Musa, Zayyan, Azaan, Mustafa, Umar
Other spellings of Hayyan
Hayan
Names related to Hayyan
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo
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, “Hayyan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hayyan, updated 20 October 2026.