Hiyab — #7859 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Hiyab

The Social Security Administration has registered 209 babies named Hiyab between 2008 and 2024, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hiyab currently holds the #7859 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Hiyab is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 63 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hiyab performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Hiyab shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hiyab in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hiyab in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 209 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.