HayaT
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: life
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hajat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
HayaT is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 12K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 854
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)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 854 (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
life. In the Qur’an, Allah addresses mankind: asl Usall Slat! Las! Igale! "Know that the life of the world is but a sport." (surat al-Hadeed 57:20)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How HayaT is read(measured from records)
HayaT is one spelling over 5 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.
- Turkish29%
life
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Yaşam, dirim. 2. Canlılarda, doğumdan ölüme kadar geçen süre. 3. Yaşama, yaşayış.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic20%
life. In the Qur’an, Allah addresses mankind: asl Usall Slat! Las! Igale! "Know that the life of the world is but a sport." (surat al-Hadeed 57:20)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Urdu11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses HayaT in Urdu.
- French9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses HayaT in French.
- Hindi6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses HayaT in Hindi.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
HayaT 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 | #280 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | HayaT | 134 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 854 | — | HayaT | 22 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | HayaT | 27 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | HayaT | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | HayaT | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,336 | 1 in 12K | 4.3K | HayaT | 31 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
HayaT is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, (i) relationship name from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Hai + coc; see Hay (3). (ii) post-medieval bearers may alternatively belong with Heacock (1).
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
In Swedish, Hayat (Haya) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’liv’. Haya’ kan också betyda ’blygsamhet, anständighet’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
life; existence; animation
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Hayat Chararab. 1935IQauthor
- Hayat Abu al-Nasrb. 1942EGEgyptian writer and poet
- Hayat Al-Fahadb. 1948KWKuwaiti actress, broadcaster, writer and producer (born 1948)
- Hayat Alidrisib. 1963MAMoroccan singer
- Hayat Sindib. 1967SASaudi medical researcher and inventor
- Hayat Boukhrissb. 1979MAMoroccan singer
- Hayat Toubalb. 1985DZAlgerian chess player
- Hayat KamilleIQIraqi and British actress
- Hayat El-YamaniEGEgyptian presenter
- Hayat BouffarrachenMAresearcher
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 76 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 644 | #6,520 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 644 | #6,508 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 HayaT mean?
- In Turkish, life
- Where does the name HayaT come from?
- life. In the Qur’an, Allah addresses mankind: asl Usall Slat! Las! Igale! "Know that the life of the world is but a sport." (surat al-Hadeed 57:20) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does HayaT have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named HayaT in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled HayaT.
- How do you pronounce HayaT?
- A machine transcription gives /hajat/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is HayaT a male or female name?
- HayaT 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.
- How common is the name HayaT?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,336 people named HayaT, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is HayaT compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, HayaT is the 280th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hayatThe 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, “HayaT” — the 280th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.