Worldwide, الحيات (الحيات 
) is quite a rare unisex forename. The first name الحيات is habitual in Iraq, where it is quite a rare epicene name, Algeria, where it is a rare unisex name, and Syria, where it is a rare girly name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Iraq, Algeria, and Morocco. More frequently, الحيات is the last name as well as the forename.