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Habib

#3,789 in 2025Boys' name

Beloved

Habib has been given to 944 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,789 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Habib, 2025

1 in 114,000

Habib over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Habib: meaning, origin, and history

Beloved

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Habib means

Habib means “beloved”, associated with حبيب.

Origin, language, and formation

Habib is used in English.

Habib comes through Arabic حبيب.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 944 boys were recorded with the name Habib between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,750 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,187 in 2020 to #3,789 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,601 in 2015 to #3,789 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Habib?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,789
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Habib 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Habib. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Habibs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Habib was born before 2008 — so the typical Habib is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
944
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Habib 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
−311
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+398
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+812
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.4%
Peak was 2019 (39)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,750
1982

Spellings of Habib

Habib is not the most common spelling — Kabir is, with 12.9% against Habib's 3.4%.

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.

Where Habib is used

Across 1910–2025, Habib was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 422,951 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Habib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Habib around the world

Where Habib 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
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2007
    #629
    in 2007
  • France
    1953–2025
    #690
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1977–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Habib by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,789
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 398
Best rank ever
#2,750
1982
Peak year
2019
39 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
944
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Habib

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

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Sibling names for Habib

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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