Entry № 2520 · Berber origin

Dihya Dihya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEE-hyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Berber
Meaning
"The beautiful one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Berber)

A name that means "the beautiful one".

Dihya (ⴷⵉⵀⵢⴰ) was the 7th-century Berber warrior queen who resisted the Arab Umayyad conquest of North Africa. Also known as Kahina ("the priestess").

Dihya is a powerful symbol of Berber identity in modern North Africa.

The beautiful one — a Berber name.

The name in its native script.

ⴷⵉⵀⵢⴰ
Transliteration
Dihya
Pronunciation
/ ˈdiː.jɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dihya stands.

Dihya 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.

Dihyas before her.

Real people
Queen Dihya (Kahina)
Berber warrior queen.
7th c. CE
In fiction
Dihya
Subject of multiple Berber novels.

Names connected to Dihya.

The number behind Dihya.

2

The Peacemaker

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