Tehzeeb
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- teh-ZEEB
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Tehzeeb is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “culture; refinement”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Tehzeeb mean?
Arabic: Urdu tehzeeb, from Arabic tahdhib
“culture; refinement”
Is Tehzeeb a girl's or a boy's name?
Tehzeeb 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 Tehzeeb in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 333% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Tehzeeb, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2012, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Tehzeeb than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Tehzeeb in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Tehzeeb in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
Names like Tehzeeb
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Safa, Summer, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Hiba, Safaa, Rahma, Safiya, Farah, Rabab, Sumayyah
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, “Tehzeeb: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tehzeeb, updated 20 October 2026.