In 2025, 60 US girls were named Hayat, making it the 2,833rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 361 places from #3,194 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 50 girls named Hayat in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,833, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #5,036 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hayat in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 7 babies. In all, 850 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 302 babies named Hayat.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US girls were named Hayat; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hayat ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #623 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.