Habibah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ha-BEE-ba
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Habibah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beloved”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Habibah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Habiba; feminine of Habib
“beloved”
Feminine form of Habib, from the Arabic for beloved.
Meaning borrowed from Habiba.
Is Habibah a girl's or a boy's name?
Habibah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Habibah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Habibah, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 32 girls.
Half of all the girls named Habibah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Habibah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Habibah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 13 | #2,186 |
| 2014 | 15 | #1,976 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | 23 | #1,418 |
| 2009 | 18 | #1,621 |
| 2008 | 18 | #1,620 |
| 2007 | 32 | #1,012 |
| 2006 | 28 | #1,062 |
| 2005 | 24 | #1,128 |
| 2004 | 18 | #1,342 |
| 2003 | 21 | #1,156 |
| 2002 | 15 | #1,399 |
| 2001 | 17 | #1,261 |
| 2000 | 18 | #1,182 |
| 1999 | 17 | #1,243 |
| 1998 | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
Names like Habibah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hibah, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Farah, Aakifah, Umamah, Umaymah, Humaira, Aaminah, Ruqayyah, Safa, Azeemah
Other spellings of Habibah
Names related to Habibah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Habibah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/habibah, updated 20 October 2026.