Hayy

loc · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hayy is a name, most frequently recorded in Iraq. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • IQIraq1 in 34K
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 165K
  • EGEgypt1 in 2.1M

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

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Where Hayy is recorded, by country
CountryShare of this name
IQ Iraq1,48691%
SA Saudi Arabia493%
EG Egypt121%
SE Sweden51%

1,552 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).

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Languages

  • Arabic1.1K64%
  • English433%
  • Urdu141%
  • Persian141%
  • Swahili111%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic1,05164%
English433%
Urdu141%
Persian141%
Swahili111%

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

Evidence

Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Hayy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls35#6,164
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20231#13,651
PK PakistanMuslim given names (CC0)
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)

Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hayy?
Our records include 1,552 bearers of Hayy across 4 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Hayy have the most bearers?
Hayy is most frequently recorded in Iraq.
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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, “Hayy”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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