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Guidance, as listed in Islamic Relief’s Muslim name guide.
Islamic Relief’s Muslim girls’ name guide lists the exact spelling Hidayah with this meaning (PDF page 52). Its compiler recommends secondary research; the Indonesian lexical entry independently agrees on guidance. This is a scoped name-meaning summary, not proof of every bearer’s language or ancestry.
A Swahili Hidaya-family account is documented; the guidance-name account remains separate.
The specialist explicitly records Hidayah as a Swahili spelling of Hidaya. This source-specific account does not assign Swahili ancestry to every bearer or establish the same root for the guidance gloss in the separate Muslim name guide.
Not yet published for this spelling.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2025 | Girls | 5 · preliminary | 3478 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2025 | Girls | 10 (rounded to 5) | 2322 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Girls | 48 | 763 | Published ranks differ from ranks calculated over visible rows. Counts retained; automated trend labels withheld. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Girls | 24 | 5238 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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Documented in this specialist naming account. The language of a name tradition does not identify every bearer’s nationality. Credit: Judith Ahrholdt / Nordic Names. Sources: https://www.nordicnames.de/w/index.php?title=Hidayah&oldid=444994. Rights notice: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/NNwiki:Impressum . Source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names wrote a brief original factual summary of the exact named entry, keeping its cultural scope. No source passages, statistics, images or audio reused.
Original brief factual summary; source rights retained
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Islamic Relief’s Muslim girls’ name guide lists the exact spelling Hidayah with this meaning (PDF page 52). Its compiler recommends secondary research; the Indonesian lexical entry independently agrees on guidance. This is a scoped name-meaning summary, not proof of every bearer’s language or ancestry. Credit: Islamic Relief and Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://www.islamic-relief.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MuslimGirlsNames.pdf; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=hidayah&oldid=87921984. License: Islamic Relief source rights retained; Wiktionary lexical context CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the exact name gloss and corroborating lexical definition. No source Arabic spelling, IPA, audio, or religious naming advice reproduced.
Original factual summary; source rights retained; lexical context CC BY-SA 4.0
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The specialist explicitly records Hidayah as a Swahili spelling of Hidaya. This source-specific account does not assign Swahili ancestry to every bearer or establish the same root for the guidance gloss in the separate Muslim name guide. Credit: Judith Ahrholdt / Nordic Names. Sources: https://www.nordicnames.de/w/index.php?title=Hidayah&oldid=444994; https://www.nordicnames.de/w/index.php?title=Hidaya&oldid=444993. Rights notice: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/NNwiki:Impressum . Source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names wrote a brief original factual summary of the exact named entry, keeping its cultural scope. No source passages, statistics, images or audio reused.
Original brief factual summary; source rights retained
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The specialist explicitly records this spelling relationship in a Swahili name tradition. Meanings, preferred pronunciations and popularity totals are not transferred between spellings. Credit: Judith Ahrholdt / Nordic Names. Sources: https://www.nordicnames.de/w/index.php?title=Hidayah&oldid=444994; https://www.nordicnames.de/w/index.php?title=Hidaya&oldid=444993. Rights notice: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/NNwiki:Impressum . Source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names wrote a brief original factual summary of the exact named entry, keeping its cultural scope. No source passages, statistics, images or audio reused.
Original brief factual summary; source rights retained
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
