Hooriyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HOO-ree-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Hooriyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “nymph, maiden of paradise”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Hooriyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hooriya, itself a spelling of Hooria
“nymph, maiden of paradise”
Meaning borrowed from Hooriya.
Is Hooriyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Hooriyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hooriyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 69% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Hooriyah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hooriyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were given Hooriyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,314, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Hooriya 17
- Hooriyah 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Hooriyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
Names like Hooriyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Aafiyah, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Safa, Zainab, Abeeha, Hafsa, Hiba, Aasiyah, Hidayah
Other spellings of Hooriyah
Names related to Hooriyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Hooriyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hooriyah, updated 20 October 2026.