Hibah
Hibah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,770 among girls’ names; 397 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hibah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hibah?
#15,770 among girls’ names, 2025
Hibah fell from #15,201 in 2015 to #15,770 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
30 babies in 2001, the peak
Hibah peaked in 2001, when 30 girls were given it, #4,131 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,770 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,147 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,472 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,756 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,815 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,802 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,181 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,201 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,512 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,346 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #9,961 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,230 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,436 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,191 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,695 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,857 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,411 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,497 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,320 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,151 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,558 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,131 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,928 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,919 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,718 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,143 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,497 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,327 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,977 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,179 | 6.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,039 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,766 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,077 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,829 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,256 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hibah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hibah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hibah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hibah, and how old are they?
An estimated 392 Americans named Hibah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Hibah (446 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 377 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Hibah?
Hibah is a less common spelling of Hiba: SSA has recorded 397 Hibah and 2,129 Hiba since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,818 babies since 1880, Hibah is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 90 babies (5.6%), again the second 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 Hibah
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 Hibah and names like it
- Compare Hibah and HibaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHibah peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hibah since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Hibah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hibah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.