Tayyib
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- TY-yib
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Tayyib is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good; pure”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Tayyib mean?
Arabic
“good; pure”
Is Tayyib a girl's or a boy's name?
Tayyib is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tayyib in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Tayyib, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,562nd. Its busiest year was 2003, with 18 boys.
Half of all the boys named Tayyib in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Tayyib in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #2,562 |
| 2019 | 7 | #2,878 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,161 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,149 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,378 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,176 |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 7 | #2,736 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,306 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,241 |
| 2008 | 11 | #1,930 |
| 2007 | 13 | #1,667 |
| 2006 | 18 | #1,256 |
| 2005 | 11 | #1,701 |
| 2004 | 10 | #1,688 |
| 2003 | 18 | #1,081 |
| 2002 | 15 | #1,151 |
| 2001 | 11 | #1,369 |
| 2000 | 7 | #1,775 |
| 1999 | 15 | #1,043 |
| 1998 | 10 | #1,346 |
| 1997 | 9 | #1,412 |
| 1996 | 8 | #1,506 |
Names like Tayyib
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Saif Habib Hamza Haseeb Hassan Zohaib Fahad Suhaib Umair Hammad Qasim Azeem
Names related to Tayyib
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, “Tayyib: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tayyib, updated 20 October 2026.