Hooriya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HOO-ree-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,779 for girls
Hooriya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “nymph, maiden of paradise”. In 2025 it ranked 1,779th for girls in the UK (17 babies).
What does Hooriya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hooria
“nymph, maiden of paradise”
Is Hooriya a girl's or a boy's name?
Hooriya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hooriya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,779th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 16,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were named Hooriya, making it the 1,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,480th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 27 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hooriya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were given Hooriya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,314, up from #1,779 for this spelling alone.
- Hooriya 17
- Hooriyah 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,719th in England and Wales.
Hooriya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #1,779 |
| 2024 | 21 | #1,538 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 20 | #1,591 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 2019 | 24 | #1,403 |
| 2018 | 19 | #1,678 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 17 | #1,853 |
| 2015 | 27 | #1,317 |
| 2014 | 23 | #1,452 |
| 2013 | 18 | #1,727 |
| 2012 | 15 | #2,005 |
| 2011 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 14 | #1,943 |
| 2007 | 14 | #1,874 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
Names like Hooriya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Amira, Safiya, Hiba, Khadija, Zainab, Aaliyah, Abeeha, Hadiya, Nusaybah, Ayah
Other spellings of Hooriya
Names related to Hooriya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Hooriya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hooriya, updated 20 October 2026.