Nusaibah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- noo-SAY-ba
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,509 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Nusaibah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,509th for girls in the UK (11 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Nusaibah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Nusaiba, itself a spelling of Nusaybah
Nusaybah bint Kab, known as Umm Umara, fought to defend the Prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Uhud.
Meaning borrowed from Nusaiba.
Is Nusaibah a girl's or a boy's name?
Nusaibah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nusaibah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,509th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 25,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 21% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were named Nusaibah, making it the 2,509th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nusaibah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 234 girls in the UK were given Nusaibah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #231, up from #2,509 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,438th in England and Wales.
Nusaibah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 11 | #2,485 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 15 | #1,976 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
How popular is Nusaibah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Nusaibah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Nusaibah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 138 girls in the US were given Nusaibah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,355, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Nusaibah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Nusaibah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ruqayyah, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Abeeha, Aaminah, Umaymah, Aafiyah, Zainab, Umamah, Ayah, Hafsa
Other spellings of Nusaibah
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, “Nusaibah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nusaibah, updated 20 October 2026.