Names beginning with H

Hadewijch

Brabantine Beguine mystic poet

Dutch/Flemish

Hadiya

Gift, guide to righteousness

Arabic/Swahili

Hafsa

Young lioness, gatherer

Arabic/Urdu

Haisley

Hazel meadow (modern American compound)

American/English

Hamida

Praiseworthy (Akbar's mother)

Arabic/Persian

Hanni

Iconic Hanni NewJeans Vietnamese-Australian K-pop

Vietnamese/Korean

Hardy

Brave / strong (Thomas Hardy; Tom Hardy)

English/Germanic

Harnaaz

God's gift (iconic Harnaaz Sandhu Miss Universe 2021)

Punjabi/Persian

Harriet

Home-ruler (Harriet Tubman; Harriet Beecher Stowe)

English/French/Germanic

Hayat

Life

Arabic/Amharic

Hazrat Mahal

Begum who led 1857 rebellion in Awadh

Arabic/Urdu

Hedvika

Battle-fighter (Czech Hedwig)

Czech/Germanic

Hendrix

Son of Hendrik (Jimi Hendrix)

Dutch/Germanic

Henrietta

Ruler of the home (Henrietta Lacks, the HeLa cells)

French/Germanic

Hester

Star (Hawthorne's Hester Prynne; The Scarlet Letter)

Persian/Hebrew

Hiraya

Imagination, hope

Filipino/Tagalog

Historia

History (iconic Historia Reiss Attack on Titan)

Greek/Latin

Héloïse

Healthy, wide (Abelard's beloved)

Old Germanic/French

Hürrem

Joyful / cheerful (Ottoman queen Roxelana)

Turkish/Persian