Hajiya

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Hausa (Nigeria/Niger)

Meaning

a Hausa title-name given to women who have completed the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam; among the Hausa-Fulani people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger — the largest Muslim community in sub-Saharan Africa — completing the Hajj confers enormous social prestige, and a woman who has made the journey is thereafter addressed respectfully as Hajiya for the rest of her life; using Hajiya as a given name rather than an earned title reflects the parental aspiration that the daughter will live a life sufficiently pious and prosperous to one day make the pilgrimage herself

Gender

female