Nusaiba
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- noo-SAY-ba
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,186 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Nusaiba is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,186th for girls in the UK (29 babies) and 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Nusaiba mean?
Arabic: spelling of Nusaybah
Nusaybah bint Kab, known as Umm Umara, fought to defend the Prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Uhud.
Is Nusaiba a girl's or a boy's name?
Nusaiba is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 girls in the UK and 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nusaiba in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,186th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 9,600 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 226% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were named Nusaiba, making it the 1,186th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 32 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nusaiba in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 234 girls in the UK were given Nusaiba or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #231, up from #1,186 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,133rd in England and Wales.
Nusaiba in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #1,186 |
| 2024 | 32 | #1,111 |
| 2023 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 2022 | 22 | #1,485 |
| 2021 | 13 | #2,202 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 11 | #2,485 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 14 | #2,085 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 10 | #2,478 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Nusaiba in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,237th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24 about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Nusaiba, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had the most girls named Nusaiba of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Nusaiba in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 138 girls in the US were given Nusaiba or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,355, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
Nusaiba in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
Names like Nusaiba
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Rahma, Rumaysa, Hiba, Safiya, Ruqayyah, Zainab, Safaa, Halima, Aaliyah
Other spellings of Nusaiba
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nusaiba: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nusaiba, updated 20 October 2026.