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Hira Hira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Diamond / Cave of Hira"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit-Arabic)

A name that means "diamond / cave of hira".

Hira is from the Urdu/Persian/Sanskrit hīrā (हीरा — diamond) + Arabic Ḥirāʾ. Hira is one of the Urdu + Hindi feminine names.

Diamond / Cave of Hira (Urdu-Sanskrit-Arabic).

The name in its native script.

हीरा / حِراء
Transliteration
Hīrā / Ḥirāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈhiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hira stands.

Hira 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.

Hiras before her.

Real people
Hira Mani
Pakistani actress + Yeh Raha Dil + Mere Paas Tum Ho.
born 1989
In fiction
Hira
Urdu diamond / Cave of Hira.

Names connected to Hira.

The number behind Hira.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hira reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.