Entry № 3952 · Arabic origin

Hadiya Hadiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-DEE-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Gift, guide to righteousness"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "gift, guide to righteousness".

Hadiya (هدية) is the Arabic word for "gift" — used widely as a Swahili name. Also "guide to righteousness" (related to hidayah).

Used widely across the Arab and Swahili worlds.

Gift. The Arabic-Swahili.

The name in its native script.

هدية
Transliteration
Hadiyya
Pronunciation
/ həˈdiː.jə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Hadiya stands.

Hadiya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hadiyas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Hadiya
Common in Swahili fiction.

Names connected to Hadiya.

The number behind Hadiya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hadiya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.