Hikma
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HIK-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Hikma is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “wisdom”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Hikma mean?
Arabic: from Arabic hikma
“wisdom”
Arabic word for wisdom, a quality much praised in the Quran.
Is Hikma a girl's or a boy's name?
Hikma is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hikma in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Hikma, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 5 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Hikma in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
How popular is Hikma in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Hikma, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2010.
Half of all the girls named Hikma in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hikma in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
Names like Hikma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Minha Hafsa Safa Yusra Hiba Ayra Yumna Liyana Mirha Huda Husna Abeeha
More Arabic names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hikma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hikma, updated 20 October 2026.