Haya
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/həjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 77th most common given name.
- QAQatar≈1 in 907(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.1K
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 907 (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Qatar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Haya is read(measured from records)
Haya is one spelling over 2 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.
- Arabic56%
life. See Hayat (m.). Comp. Haya
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English11%
A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Haya 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 | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Haya | 38 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #388 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Haya | 116 |
| SY Syria | #371 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Haya | 29 |
| JO Jordan | #517 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Haya | 68 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Haya | 60 |
| KW Kuwait | #105 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Haya | 67 |
| QA Qatar | #77 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 907 | — | Haya | 67 |
| US United States | — | 1,567 | 1 in 212K | 1.6K | Haya | 163 |
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)
Haya is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
a son of Satajit (P); Indra (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Ce decency; modesty;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Modesty.
as a nameThe African book of names
Jewish: name meaning ‘life’ in Hebrew. It represents a feminine form of HYAM .
as a word
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)
- Haya Pikholtzb. 1902ILteacher in pre-State Israel (1902–1984)
- Haya Shalomb. 1944ILIsraeli feminist and human rights activist
- Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifab. 1952BHBahrani lawyer and diplomat
- Lihi Lapidb. 1968ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli author, photojournalist, and columnist
- Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein of Jordanb. 1974JOJordanian Royal
- Haya Jumaab. 1993CACanadian karateka
- Haya Maraachlib. 1997SYSyrian-Lebanese actress
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)
Attested in 70 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #9,048 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 101 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #9,048 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Haya mean, and where does it come from?
- A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Haya?
- A machine transcription gives /həjə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Haya a male or female name?
- Haya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Haya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Haya in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haya.
- How common is the name Haya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,567 people named Haya in 2020, about 1 in 212 thousand residents.
- How common is Haya compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Haya is the 77th most common given name of 12,797 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/hayaThe 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, “Haya” — the 77th most common given name in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.