Heba
Heba was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,990 among girls’ names; 1,403 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Heba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Heba?
#5,990 among girls’ names, 2025
Heba fell from #4,769 in 2015 to #5,990 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 12.4 per million.
51 babies in 2007, the peak
Heba peaked in 2007, when 51 girls were given it, #3,300 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,990 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,508 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,915 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,525 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,185 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,939 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,288 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,395 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,734 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,288 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,769 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,695 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,061 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,759 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,097 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,987 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,761 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,213 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,300 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,428 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,532 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,650 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,146 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,289 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,159 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,228 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,265 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,674 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,247 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,976 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,374 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,469 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,008 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,879 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,467 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,649 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,706 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,697 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,026 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,036 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,779 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,996 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,166 | 10.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,640 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,979 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,021 | 8.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Heba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heba, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,403 Americans ever recorded as Heba. The median Heba alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,685 people named Heba (2,672 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 638 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 365 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,693 babies since 1880, Heba is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 20 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Heba
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Heba and names like it
- Compare Heba and HebahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHeba peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heba since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Heba.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Heba alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.