# Umayya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/umayya/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “servant”, “slave” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 21, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Arabic أُمَيَّة (ʔumayya, “servant, slave”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: أُمَيَّة
- French: Omeyya
- German: Umayya
- Hindi: उमय्या

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.