Hayfa
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/hajfˈa/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Hayfa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 12K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 31Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hayfa is read
(measured from records)Hayfa is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic42%
slender, slim, of beautiful body
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
slender, slim
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Turkish20%
Haifa (a port city in northern Israel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hayfa in English.
- French8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hayfa in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hayfa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | #404 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Hayfa | 25 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hayfa | 10 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Hayfa | 44 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Hayfa | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hayfa | 20 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Hayfa | 10 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | Hayfa | 68 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hayfa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Aymara, Qn,e¡ia-. Pere^oí'o
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Haifa al-Aghab. 1944PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
- Haifa bint Faisalb. 1950SAnot in their usual nameSaudi royal (born 1950)
- Haifa Zanganab. 1950IQnot in their usual nameIraqi writer
- Haifa Najjarb. 1959JOnot in their usual nameJordanian politician
- Hayfa Baytarb. 1960SYSyrian writer and ophthalmologist
- Haifa El Aissamib. 1971VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan lawyer
- Haifaa al-Mansourb. 1974SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian film director
- Haifa Wehbeb. 1976LBnot in their usual nameLebanese singer and actress
- Harashta Haifa Zahrab. 2003IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Supranational 2024 (born 2003)
- Haifa AlMogrinSAnot in their usual namePermanent Respresentative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the UNESCO
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 142 | #46,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #46,524 |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hayfa?
- In Turkish /hajfˈa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hayfa a male or female name?
- Hayfa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Hayfa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Hayfa in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hayfa.
- How common is the name Hayfa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Hayfa in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Hayfa compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Hayfa is the 404th most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hayfaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hayfa” — the 404th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.