Hadiya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: 'gift'; Muslim: 'guide to righteousness'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Hadiya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- YTMayotte≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 18K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 77K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mayotte, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Swahili: 'gift'; Muslim: 'guide to righteousness'
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hadiya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Hadiya | 18 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 785 | 1 in 424K | 775 | Hadiya | 28 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 356K | listed | Hadiya | 4 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 77K | listed | — | 1 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 1 | — | — |
| YT Mayotte | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | — |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the uz-ismlarim register. 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)Hadiya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Gift
as a nameThe book of African names
In Arabic, gift, present, sing. of Hadaya Loa
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, gift, present; singular of Hadaya
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
God’s gift.
as a nameThe African book of names
Regalo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Hadiya Davletshinab. 1905RUBashkir writer, poet (1905–1954)
- Hadiya Khalaf Abbasb. 1958SYSyrian politician
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 775 | #14,856 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #14,856 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2012 | 5 | #95 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 1 | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Hadiya mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: 'gift'; Muslim: 'guide to righteousness' Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Hadiya?
- In the etymology graph, Hadiye and Hadia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Hadiya a male or female name?
- Hadiya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Hadiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Hadiya in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hadiya.
- How common is the name Hadiya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 785 people named Hadiya in 2020, about 1 in 424 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hadiyaThe 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, “Hadiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.