Hiraya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- hee-RAH-ya
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Hiraya is a girls' name, meaning “fruit of one's hopes and dreams”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
What does Hiraya mean?
Tagalog, from the phrase hiraya manawari
“fruit of one's hopes and dreams”
From the old Tagalog phrase hiraya manawari, 'may the wishes of your heart come true'.
Is Hiraya a girl's or a boy's name?
Hiraya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hiraya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 400% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Hiraya, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Hiraya of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Hiraya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
How popular is Hiraya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,115th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Hiraya, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 2021.
Half of all the girls named Hiraya in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hiraya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,796 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,451 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
Names like Hiraya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Raya, Nusaybah, Safa, Hafsa, Inaya, Halima, Haniya, Haya, Hiba, Irha, Ayra
Names related to Hiraya
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, “Hiraya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hiraya, updated 20 October 2026.