Haya

given name · Arabic · Latin script

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

Haya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Kuwait it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana).

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 584◐
  • QAQatar1 in 1.1K
  • THThailand1 in 1.2K

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

≈13K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
156 ●

157K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 24K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

จรรยาThai · Thai●48K records
ChayaLatin · Hindi●42K records
ХаяCyrillic · Russian●2K records

14 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Хая in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, Chanya in SE Sweden, NO Norway, จรรยา in TH Thailand and Chaya in IN India.

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●

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.

Where in the world●

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

Where Haya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand#146120,51162K rec.—#89,237จรรยา116
IN India—60,95448K rec.—129Chaya96
US United States—11,25212K rec.1 in 30K11KHaya156
SY Syria#4059,4379.8K rec.——Haya26
EG Egypt#5828,344688 rec.——Haya56
KW Kuwait#583,9132.5K rec.——Haya59
SA Saudi Arabia#3663,1451.5K rec.——Haya107
TR Türkiye—2,2182.4K rec.——Haya19
QA Qatar#902,1151.6K rec.——Haya65
RU Russia—1,783678 rec.—#1,405Хая67
PK Pakistan—1,002484 rec.——Haya36
IL Israel—993905 rec.——Haya38

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

Languages●

  • Arabic25K41%
  • English12K20%
  • French4.8K8%
  • Urdu1.8K3%
  • Hindi1.8K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic24,64441%
English11,91220%
French4,7688%
Urdu1,8073%
Hindi1,7543%

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◐

Haya is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6.6K records spelled Haya5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Haiya, Haïya, Hãýâ

  • Indonesian given name3.3K records spelled Haya6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Haya, Haya', Hàÿã

  • Hebrew given name1.4K records spelled Haya21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Poland, Lebanon, Romania

    Languages: Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written חיה, היא, הייא, Chaya, האיא

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name554 records spelled Haya6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Syria

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Håyå

  • a separate given name524 records spelled Haya4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Pakistan, Morocco

    Also written Ḥayā, Hayā, Ḥaya

  • Thai given name272 records spelled Haya70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Malaysia, Türkiye, Morocco

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ฮายาตี, ฮายาต, หะยะ, Hayatee, HayaT

  • Amharic given name133 records spelled Haya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Ghana, Netherlands

    Also written ሃያ, ሀያ

43 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.

Other recorded senses●

Haya 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.

  • In Arabic, life. See Hayat (m.). Comp. Haya

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • 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.

Over time●

0501001501960198020002020110 · 2024

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Haya in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1960–2025
Yearrecords
19605
19806
19875
19895
199013
19917
199212
199312
199424
199512
199613
199713
199815
199931
200019
200123
200236
200328
200429
200526
200620
200725
200847
200939
201041
201137
201255
201359
201468
201569
201679
201781
201865
201972
202086
202183
2022103
2023106
2024110
2025101

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1960–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Haya Pikholtz, b. 1902Haya Shalom, b. 1944Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifa, b. 1952Lihi Lapid, b. 1968Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein of Jordan, b. 1974Haya Jumaa, b. 1993Haya Maraachli, b. 1997

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 70 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Haya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#9,048
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024750#1,356
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—748#5,718
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—748#5,714
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—423#3,108
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020336—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—284#3,703
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020192#100,469
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000166#100,663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010126#133,863
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—123#13,393
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025101—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 340 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Haya?
We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Haya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Haya have the most bearers?
Haya is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จรรยา.
How common is Haya compared with other names?
In Thailand, Haya is the 146th most common given name of 422,526 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Haya mean?
Recorded meaning: A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana).
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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, “Haya” — the 146th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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