Likely an Indian modern name, often associated with meanings like "heart," "joy," or "beloved" in current use.
Heeya is a name rooted in the Hindi and Sanskrit word "hiya" (हिया), a poetic and intimate term for the heart — used not in the clinical anatomical sense but in the literary sense of the seat of feeling, the innermost self. The word appears throughout Hindi poetry and folk songs as an expression of deep emotional life: to say something resides in one's "hiya" is to say it lives at the very center of one's being. This gives the name Heeya a quality of warmth and interiority that is unusual among names, which more commonly name external qualities like beauty, strength, or brightness.
The name draws from a long tradition in the Indian subcontinent of naming children after qualities of the inner life — words for mind, soul, heart, and spirit transformed into personal names. In this it resembles names like Mana (mind) or Atma (soul), but Heeya's particular resonance with "heart" gives it an especially tender quality. The folk and devotional poetry of Hindi literature, from the bhakti saints to twentieth-century lyricists, uses "hiya" as a constant refrain: the heart that longs, that aches, that rejoices.
In its modern usage, Heeya has a pleasingly contemporary sound that travels well outside South Asian communities — short, symmetrical, and ending in the open vowel that many parents today find appealing. It can be understood on first hearing as simply a pretty sound, while carrying, for those who know its root, a depth of meaning that grows more touching with time. It is a name that, in a sense, means: this child is my heart.