Tayyiba
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- tie-YEE-bah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Tayyiba is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good, pure”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Tayyiba mean?
Arabic: spelling of Tayyibah; feminine of Arabic tayyib
“good, pure”
Feminine of Tayyib, good or pure; Tayyibah is also a traditional name for the city of Medina.
Meaning borrowed from Tayyibah.
Is Tayyiba a girl's or a boy's name?
Tayyiba is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tayyiba in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Tayyiba, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Tayyiba in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Tayyiba in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 11 | #2,119 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 7 | #2,574 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
| 1996 | 6 | #2,469 |
Names like Tayyiba
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Abeeha, Hiba, Zainab, Safiya, Rahma, Habiba, Halima, Rumaysa, Summer
Names related to Tayyiba
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, “Tayyiba: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tayyiba, updated 20 October 2026.