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Hibo

Girls' name

Form of Hiba

Hibo has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1998. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Hibo, 2021

1 in 678,000

Hibo over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hibo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hiba

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hibo means

Hibo is a form of Hiba.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hibo is used in Somali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hibo → 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, 90 girls were recorded with the name Hibo between 1998 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #11,194 in 2016.

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 Hibo?

Hibo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hibo 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hibo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hibos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hibo was born before 2015 — so the typical Hibo is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
90
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Hibo 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (9)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,194
2016

Spellings of Hibo

Hibo is not the most common spelling — Halo is, with 19.9% against Hibo's 0.40%.

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.

Hibo around the world

Where Hibo 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
    1996–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #1,824
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hibo by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,194
2016
Peak year
2016
9 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
90
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hibo

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

HibahHibbaHibaqHiba

Sibling names for Hibo

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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