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Hidaya

#5,993 in 2025Girls' name

Gift, precious, beautiful

Hidaya has been given to 261 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #5,993 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Hidaya, 2025

1 in 166,000

Hidaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hidaya: meaning, origin, and history

Gift, precious, beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hidaya means

Hidaya means “gift, precious, beautiful”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 261 girls were recorded with the name Hidaya between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,805 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,701 in 2020 to #5,993 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,719 in 2015 to #5,993 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.

How common is Hidaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,993
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hidaya 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hidaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hidayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hidaya was born before 2018 — so the typical Hidaya is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
261
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Hidaya 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
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,708
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,726
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.82×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2018 (28)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,805
2018

Spellings of Hidaya

Hidaya is not the most common spelling — Inaya is, with 28.9% against Hidaya's 2.2%.

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 Hidaya is used

Across 1910–2025, Hidaya was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,546,808 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Hidaya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hidaya around the world

Where Hidaya 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
    2006–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #243
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hidaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,993
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,708
Best rank ever
#4,805
2018
Peak year
2018
28 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
261
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Hidaya

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

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Sibling names for Hidaya

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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