Wajiha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- wa-JEE-ha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,324 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Wajiha is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “distinguished, honoured”. In 2025 it ranked 1,324th for girls in the UK (25 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Wajiha mean?
Arabic: feminine of Wajih
“distinguished, honoured”
Feminine of Wajih; the Qur'an describes Jesus as wajih, 'held in honour', in this world and the next.
Is Wajiha a girl's or a boy's name?
Wajiha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wajiha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 11,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 962% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 25 girls in the UK were named Wajiha, making it the 1,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 33 girls.
Half of all the girls named Wajiha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 32 girls in the UK were given Wajiha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,002, up from #1,324 for this spelling alone.
- Wajiha 25
- Wajeeha 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,271st in England and Wales.
Wajiha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #1,324 |
| 2024 | 33 | #1,084 |
| 2023 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 2010 | 13 | #2,103 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 1 | #5,280 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
How popular is Wajiha in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Wajiha, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Wajiha in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Wajiha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
Names like Wajiha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Hiba, Nusaybah, Rahma, Rumaysa, Halima, Aaliyah, Safiya, Khadija, Amira
Other spellings of Wajiha
Wajeeha
Names related to Wajiha
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Wajiha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wajiha, updated 20 October 2026.