Hëbă

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hëbă is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Polish chyba or chybać.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 13K
  • DKDenmark1 in 30K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,685 people, 2020

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Heba in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Old Polish chyba or chybać.

Sources 2

  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hëbă counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Hëbă is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,6851 in 124K2.7KHeba3
SE Sweden7591 in 13K759——
ES Spain2241 in 223K224—1
DK Denmark1931 in 30K193——
IS Iceland1061 in 3.3K106——
FI Finland271 in 206K64——

2,685 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hëbă under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hëbă mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Polish chyba or chybać. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon.
Is Hëbă a male or female name?
Hëbă is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Hëbă have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Hëbă, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heba.
Where is Hëbă most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hëbă is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hëbă?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,685 people named Hëbă in 2020, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hëbă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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