Hooria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HOO-ree-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
Hooria is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “nymph, maiden of paradise”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies).
What does Hooria mean?
Arabic: from Arabic huriyya, via Urdu
“nymph, maiden of paradise”
Is Hooria a girl's or a boy's name?
Hooria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hooria in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Hooria, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,587th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 31 girls.
2025 had more girls named Hooria than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Hooria in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Hooria in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 20 | #1,587 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 19 | #1,711 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 28 | #1,276 |
| 2014 | 31 | #1,189 |
| 2013 | 20 | #1,617 |
| 2012 | 24 | #1,430 |
| 2011 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
Names like Hooria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Hafsa, Safa, Khadija, Zainab, Hiba, Liyana, Abeeha, Aaliyah, Sophia, Aisha, Hania
Names related to Hooria
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Dua
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, “Hooria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hooria, updated 20 October 2026.