Tayyaba
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TAY-ya-ba
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Tayyaba is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good, pure”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Tayyaba mean?
Arabic: feminine of Tayyib
“good, pure”
Taiba, 'the good, the pure', is a traditional name for the city of Medina.
Is Tayyaba a girl's or a boy's name?
Tayyaba 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 Tayyaba in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Tayyaba, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 11 girls.
2025 had more girls named Tayyaba than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Tayyaba in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2012. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Tayyaba in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 11 | #2,119 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 10 | #1,770 |
| 1998 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
| 1996 | 6 | #2,469 |
Names like Tayyaba
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Habiba, Faiza, Safia, Saba, Humaira, Sabiha, Salma, Fariha, Nafisa, Fatma, Taiba, Waziha
Names related to Tayyaba
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Tayyaba: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tayyaba, updated 20 October 2026.