Hiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HEE-yah
- Origin
- Hindi
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Hiya is a girls' name of Hindi origin, meaning “heart”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Hiya mean?
Hindi: Hindi word
“heart”
Is Hiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Hiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,344th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 220% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Hiya, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the most girls named Hiya of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Hiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Hiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
How popular is Hiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Hiya, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2012, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had fewer girls named Hiya than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Hiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
Names like Hiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Raya, Zainab, Ayah, Ayra, Huda, Rahma, Haniya, Hawa, Safiya
More Hindi names
Prisha, Saanvi, Meera, Riya, Jiya, Diya, Reyansh, Sai, Shanaya, Neev, Aarush, Rivaan, Samaira, Rishaan, Sanaya, Tulsi
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, “Hiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hiya, updated 20 October 2026.