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Habiba

#4,917 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Habib

Habiba has been given to 791 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #4,917 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Habiba, 2025

1 in 123,000

Habiba over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Habiba: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Habib

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Habiba means

Habiba is a feminine form of Habib.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Habiba → Habib. The family’s meaning is “beloved”, recorded in English with the source elements حبيب.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Habib.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 791 girls were recorded with the name Habiba between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,449 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,295 in 2020 to #4,917 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,901 in 2015 to #4,917 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 Habiba?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,917
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Habiba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Habiba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Habibas were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
791
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (343).

Is Habiba 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
+939
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−622
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−16
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.7%
Peak was 2014 (46)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,449
2014

Spellings of Habiba

Habiba is not the most common spelling — Sabina is, with 36.3% against Habiba's 3.6%.

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 Habiba is used

Across 1910–2025, Habiba was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 249,464 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Habiba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Habiba around the world

Where Habiba 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
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #655
    in 2003
  • France
    1952–2025
    #1,369
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Habiba by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,917
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 622
Best rank ever
#3,449
2014
Peak year
2014
46 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
791
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Habiba

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

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Sibling names for Habiba

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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