Wajeeha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- wa-JEE-ha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Wajeeha is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “distinguished; honoured”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Wajeeha mean?
Arabic: Arabic wajiha, from wajh 'face'
“distinguished; honoured”
Is Wajeeha a girl's or a boy's name?
Wajeeha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wajeeha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 175% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Wajeeha, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Wajeeha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 32 girls in the UK were given Wajeeha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,002, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Wajiha 25
- Wajeeha 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Wajeeha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
Names like Wajeeha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Halima, Safiya, Rahma, Abeeha, Khadija, Sumayyah, Amira
Other spellings of Wajeeha
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, 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, “Wajeeha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wajeeha, updated 20 October 2026.