Hausa Girl Names
Explore names documented in Hausa naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1919. | 931#330 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1950. | 910#337 | Up 199 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1943. | 970#315 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1962. | 122#1,686 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1957. | 338#810 | Up 155 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973. | 168#1,333 | Up 547 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | 102#1,902 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 27#4,917 | Down 622 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 25#5,119 | Up 225 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989. | —Unranked | — | 2008 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 5#15,743 | new | 2002 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2005. | 10#9,536 | new | 2023 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016. | 19#6,200 | Up 4,383 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987. | —Unranked | — | 1987 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2002. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2017. | —Unranked | — | 2017 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2019. | —Unranked | — | 2019 | ||
Documented Hausa usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2025. | 5#15,730 | new | 2025 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.