Entry № 3971 · Arabic origin

Haifa Haifa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HIE-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Slender (Haifa city)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "slender (haifa city)".

Haifa is from the Arabic Haifāʾ.

Slender (Haifa city) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

هيفاء
Transliteration
Haifāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈhaɪ.fə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Haifa stands.

Haifa 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.

Haifas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Haifa city / Bahai Faith
Haifa city Israel + Mount Carmel + Bahai Faith Bahjí Shrine + Shrine of the Bab + ~8 million Bahais worldwide + pilgrimage center
Bahai + Israeli

Names connected to Haifa.

The number behind Haifa.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Haifa reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.