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
Grammatical form

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

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.