Hiba
Hiba was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,177 among girls’ names; 2,129 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Hiba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hiba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hiba?
#2,177 among girls’ names, 2025
Hiba rose from #2,903 in 2015 to #2,177 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.6 to 52.9 per million.
94 babies in 2023, the peak
Hiba peaked in 2023, when 94 girls were given it, #2,069 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,177 | 52.9 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,316 | 49.4 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,069 | 58.6 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,453 | 45.1 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,974 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,905 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,634 | 39.3 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,363 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,848 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,076 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,903 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,427 | 42.0 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,195 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,782 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,516 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,484 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,576 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,031 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,357 | 42.1 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,921 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,137 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,605 | 34.9 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,531 | 35.0 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,359 | 37.8 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,490 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,912 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,793 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,663 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,837 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,912 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,810 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,724 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,875 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,519 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,103 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,361 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,139 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,711 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,313 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,994 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,816 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,444 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,022 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hiba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hiba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hiba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hiba, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,129 Americans ever recorded as Hiba. The median Hiba alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,235 people named Hiba (3,221 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 253 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 969 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 886 |
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).
Where are babies named Hiba born?
The states with the most babies named Hiba are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,290 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,910 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,293 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,492 | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,291 | 1.4× |
Where Hiba is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hiba is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1981 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hiba with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,818 babies since 1880, Hiba is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 90 babies (94%), 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 Hiba
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 Hiba and names like it
- Compare Hiba and HibahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHiba peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hiba since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Hiba.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hiba alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.