Huda
Huda was given to 117 girls in 2025, #1,739 among girls’ names; 2,021 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Huda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Huda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Huda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Huda is “a female given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “guidance” (هُدًى).
Borrowed from Arabic هُدًى (hudan, “guidance”)
/ˈhʊdə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Huda?
#1,739 among girls’ names, 2025
Huda rose from #2,694 in 2015 to #1,739 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.0 to 72.8 per million.
117 babies in 2025, the peak
Huda peaked in 2025, when 117 girls were given it, #1,739 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 81 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,739 | 72.8 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,289 | 50.0 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,530 | 43.6 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,495 | 43.9 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,938 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,205 | 50.7 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,612 | 39.9 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,153 | 51.7 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,330 | 45.8 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,676 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,694 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,857 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,195 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,668 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,685 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,912 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,979 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,836 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,263 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,194 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,423 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,756 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,504 | 35.6 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,863 | 28.9 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,930 | 27.2 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,290 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,794 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,675 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,163 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,314 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,008 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,926 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,294 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,119 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,055 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,747 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,159 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,415 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,170 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,541 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,820 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,650 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,543 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,663 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,431 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,459 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,534 | 7.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,170 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,818 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Huda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Huda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Huda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Huda, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,021 Americans ever recorded as Huda. The median Huda alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,492 people named Huda (3,462 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 281 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 741 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 949 |
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 Huda born?
The states with the most babies named Huda are California, New York and Illinois, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Huda 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,650 babies since 1880, Huda is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 126 babies (93%), 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 Huda
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 Huda and names like it
- Compare Huda and HodaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHuda peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Huda since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Huda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Huda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Huda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.