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Heba

#5,990 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Hiba

Heba has been given to 1,403 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #5,990 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Heba, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heba: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Hiba

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heba means

Heba is a alternate transcription of Hiba.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Heba → Hiba. The family’s meaning is “gift”, recorded in the naming reference for Hiba.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hiba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,403 girls were recorded with the name Heba between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,879 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,939 in 2020 to #5,990 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,769 in 2015 to #5,990 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.

How common is Heba?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,990
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heba 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hebas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heba was born before 2004 — so the typical Heba is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,403
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (434).

Is Heba 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
−482
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,051
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,221
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.2%
Peak was 2007 (51)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,879
1992

Spellings of Heba

Heba is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 30.9% against Heba's 0.08%.

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 Heba is used

Across 1910–2025, Heba was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 195,633 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Heba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Heba around the world

Where Heba 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
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2021
    #4,623
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Heba by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,990
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,051
Best rank ever
#2,879
1992
Peak year
2007
51 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,403
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Heba

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

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Sibling names for Heba

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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