Habeeb

#10,040 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Habeeb has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #10,040 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Habeeb, 2025

1 in 474,000

Habeeb over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Habeeb?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,040
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Habeeb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Habeeb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Habeebs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Habeeb was born before 2013 — so the typical Habeeb is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
113
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Habeeb rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,123
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 2018 (12)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
55.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,839
2018

Spellings of Habeeb

Habeeb is not the most common spelling — Hakeem is, with 65.5% against Habeeb's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Habeeb around the world

Where Habeeb ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2009–2009
    #701
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Habeeb by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,040
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,839
2018
Peak year
2018
12 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Habeeb

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Habeeb

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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