Hiyab
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- hee-YAB
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,675 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Hiyab is a name, meaning “gift”. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies) and 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Hiyab mean?
Tigrinya, from hiyab 'gift'
“gift”
A name used by Eritrean and Ethiopian Tigrinya-speaking families.
Is Hiyab a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Hiyab has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK and 14 girls in the US.
How popular is Hiyab in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,675among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 28,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 19% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Hiyab, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hiyab in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were given Hiyab or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,781, up from #2,675 for this spelling alone.
- Hiyab 10
- Hyab 4
Girls were 53% of the babies named Hiyab in the UK in 2021, and 90% in 2022.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,603rd in England and Wales.
Hiyab in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #2,675 |
| 2024 | 15 | #1,953 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
How popular is Hiyab in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Hiyab, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Hiyab in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hiyab in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
Names like Hiyab
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zainab Hafsa Hiba Nusaybah Ayah Rahma Abeeha Safaa Huda Ruqayyah Ayra
Other spellings of Hiyab
Hyab
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, “Hiyab: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hiyab, updated 20 October 2026.