Entry № 4242 · Arabic origin

Hessa Hessa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Sheikha Hessa"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sheikha hessa".

Hessa is from the Arabic Ḥeṣṣa.

Sheikha Hessa — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

حصة
Transliteration
Ḥeṣṣa
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛ.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hessa stands.

Hessa 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.

Hessas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sheikha Hessa Al Maktoum
UAE Royal Family member + Hessa bint Saud Saudi philanthropist + pan-Arab + Gulf royal naming + Emirati + Saudi feminine royal
Gulf royalty

Names connected to Hessa.

The number behind Hessa.

7

The Seeker

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