Haïfa

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Haïfa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 20K
  • TNTunisia1 in 37K
  • SESweden1 in 59K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.2K

across 9 countries

3

recorded for this name

Sources
149

25K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 59K

Sweden

Spellings & scripts

HayfaLatin · Turkish1.9K records
ไฮฟะThai · Thai70 records
חיפהHebrew · Yiddish0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Haifa in US United States, IL Israel, BR Brazil and 8 more, Hayfa in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, IQ Iraq and 2 more, ไฮฟะ in TH Thailand and 'Haifa in ID Indonesia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

recorded in Korean

이스라엘 북부, 지중해에 면한 항구 도시.

Sources 2

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Haïfa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria1,2714.2K rec.Hayfa13
TR Türkiye8391.4K rec.Hayfa12
US United States8027.5K rec.1 in 415K802Haifa126
FR France3832.4K rec.Haïfa149
IL Israel283246 rec.13Haifa10
TH Thailand201163 rec.listedไฮฟะ24
SE Sweden172183 rec.1 in 59K17214
BR Brazil12088 rec.1 in 1.8M120Haifa30
TN Tunisia1071.4K rec.Haïfa38
IQ Iraq61240 rec.Hayfa16
DK Denmark503 rec.1 in 117K501
CA Canada44219 rec.2Haifa20

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • French24073%
  • Arabic7423%
  • English62%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French24073%
Arabic7423%
English62%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Haïfa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 records spelled Haïfa3 spellings in the group

    Also written Haīfā, Haifa

  • a separate name1 records spelled Haïfa3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hãifa, Haifa

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Haïfa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Haïfa?
We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Haïfa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Haïfa have the most bearers?
Haïfa is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled hayfa.
Is Haïfa a male or female name?
Haïfa 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.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Haïfa”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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