Reyhana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ray-HAA-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Reyhana is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sweet basil”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Reyhana mean?
Arabic: spelling of Rayhana
“sweet basil”
The Qur'an (56:89) names rayhan, sweet-scented plants, among the rewards of Paradise.
Is Reyhana a girl's or a boy's name?
Reyhana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Reyhana in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Reyhana, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Reyhana in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Reyhana in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
Names like Reyhana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Safa, Khadija, Aisha, Abeeha, Hafsa, Liyana, Rumaysa, Rahma, Hiba, Zainab, Raha
Names related to Reyhana
Rayhan, Reyna, Rayhana, Rayana, Riyana, Rihana, Ryana, Rehana
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, 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, “Reyhana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/reyhana, updated 20 October 2026.