Entry № 1940 · Hebrew origin

Chaya Chaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KHAI-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Life, living"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "life, living".

Chaya is a Hebrew name meaning life, or living — the feminine of the word chai, so central to Jewish thought and blessing. It is a name that celebrates being alive.

Life — warm and vital.

The name in its native script.

חַיָּה
Transliteration
Ḥayyāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈxaɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chaya stands.

Chaya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chayas before her.

Real people
Chaya Mushka Schneerson
Wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
1901 – 1988
In fiction

Names connected to Chaya.

The number behind Chaya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chaya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.