Haifa
loc · Hebrew · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haifa is a name, most frequently recorded in Syria. It appears chiefly in Hebrew and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: district, Israel.
- 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 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 149 ●
- 1 in 59K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
25K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Hayfa in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, IQ Iraq and 2 more, Haïfa in FR France, TN Tunisia, DZ Algeria, 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●
district, Israel
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | 1,271 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Hayfa | 13 |
| TR Türkiye | 839 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Hayfa | 12 |
| US United States | 802 | 7.5K rec. | 1 in 415K | 802 | Haifa | 126 |
| FR France | 383 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Haïfa | 149 |
| IL Israel | 283 | 246 rec. | — | 13 | Haifa | 10 |
| TH Thailand | 201 | 163 rec. | — | listed | ไฮฟะ | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 172 | 183 rec. | 1 in 59K | 172 | — | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 120 | 88 rec. | 1 in 1.8M | 120 | Haifa | 30 |
| TN Tunisia | 107 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Haïfa | 38 |
| IQ Iraq | 61 | 240 rec. | — | — | Hayfa | 16 |
| DK Denmark | 50△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | 44 | 219 rec. | — | 2 | Haifa | 20 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hebrew703K69%
- English6941%
- Arabic2841%
- French1391%
- Spanish561%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hebrew | 703,310 | 69% |
| English | 694 | 1% |
| Arabic | 284 | 1% |
| French | 139 | 1% |
| Spanish | 56 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Haifa 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.
slim
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In English, A port city in northern Israel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, Haifa (a city in Israel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Izraēlas ziemeļu daļā (angļu val. "Haifa", ebr. val. "Hefa"), osta Vidusjūras krastā, 266300 iedzīvotāju (2006. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Haifa al-Aghab. 1944PSPalestinian politician
- Haifa bint Faisalb. 1950SASaudi royal (born 1950)
- Haifa Zanganab. 1950IQIraqi writer
- Haifa Najjarb. 1959JOJordanian politician
- Hayfa Baytarb. 1960SYnot in their usual nameSyrian writer and ophthalmologist
- Haifa El Aissamib. 1971VEVenezuelan lawyer
- Haifaa al-Mansourb. 1974SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian film director
- Haifa Wehbeb. 1976LBLebanese singer and actress
- Harashta Haifa Zahrab. 2003IDIndonesian beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Supranational 2024 (born 2003)
- Haifa AlMogrinSAPermanent 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 802 | #14,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 249 | #81,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 172 | #5,822 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 153 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 146 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 141 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 140 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 126 | #125,639 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 125 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 120 | #6,867 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 120 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 115 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Haifa?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Haifa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Haifa have the most bearers?
- Haifa is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled hayfa.
- What does the name Haifa mean?
- Recorded meaning: district, Israel
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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haifa”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.