Entry № 4311 · Filipino origin

Hiraya Hiraya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-RAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Filipino
Meaning
"Imagination, hope"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Filipino)

A name that means "imagination, hope".

Hiraya is the Tagalog word for "imagination" or "the fruit of one's hope." The Filipino saying "Hiraya Manawari" means "may your dreams come true."

Hiraya is rare but rising in modern Filipino naming.

Hope, imagination. The Tagalog dream.

The name in its native script.

Hiraya
Transliteration
Hiraya
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈrɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hiraya stands.

Hiraya 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.

Hirayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hiraya
Common in Filipino literature.

Names connected to Hiraya.

The number behind Hiraya.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hiraya reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.