Muhab
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- moo-HAHB
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,329 for boys
Muhab is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “revered, held in awe”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies).
What does Muhab mean?
Arabic: from the root h-y-b 'awe'
“revered, held in awe”
Is Muhab a girl's or a boy's name?
Muhab is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Muhab in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,329th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Muhab, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys.
2025 had the most boys named Muhab of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Muhab in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 1 | #6,556 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 1 | #6,277 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #4,955 |
Names like Muhab
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musab, Muhammad, Rabab, Habib, Mahmoud, Haseeb, Ahmed, Fahad, Suhaib, Zohaib, Hamza, Abdur
Names related to Muhab
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo
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, “Muhab: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/muhab, updated 20 October 2026.