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Hayat

#2,833 in 2025Girls' name

Life

Hayat has been given to 850 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #2,833 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Hayat, 2025

1 in 55,300

Hayat over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hayat: meaning, origin, and history

Life

Arabic

What Hayat means

Hayat means “life”, associated with hayat.

Origin, language, and formation

Hayat is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 850 girls were recorded with the name Hayat between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,833 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,111 in 2020 to #2,833 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,034 in 2015 to #2,833 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hayat?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,833
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hayat sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hayat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hayats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hayat was born before 2016 — so the typical Hayat is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
850
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (302).

Is Hayat rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+361
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+278
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,201
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (60)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,833
2025

Spellings of Hayat

Hayat is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 50.4% against Hayat's 0.35%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hayat is used

Across 1910–2025, Hayat was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 432,736 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hayat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hayat around the world

Where Hayat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #834
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #1,208
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hayat by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,833
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 278
Best rank ever
#2,833
2025
Peak year
2025
60 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
850
Count in 2025
60

Names similar to Hayat

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hayat

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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