Habibullah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: friend of Allah, dear to Allah
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/habʲɪbʲʊlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Habibullah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 13Kas Khabibulla
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Habibullah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 521 (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Хабибулла in UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Habibulla in TM Turkmenistan.
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)
friend of Allah, dear to Allah
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Habibullah 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #155 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Habibullah | 14 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Habibullah | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | #963 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Habibullah | 32 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Habibullah | 16 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #647 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Хабибулла | 10 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Хабибулла | 8 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Habibulla | 3 |
| US United States | — | 275 | 1 in 1.2M | 275 | Habibullah | 85 |
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: the uz-ismlarim register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Habibullah is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, friend of Allah. An
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, beloved of Allah.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, God’s beloved
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
beloved of God.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kamron Habibullahb. 2003UZCanadian soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 275 | #31,246 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Habibullah mean, and where does it come from?
- friend of Allah, dear to Allah Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Habibullah?
- A machine transcription gives /habʲɪbʲʊlə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Habibullah a male or female name?
- Habibullah is a male 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 Habibullah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Habibullah in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled habibullah.
- How common is the name Habibullah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Habibullah in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Habibullah compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Habibullah is the 155th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Habibullah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/habibullahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Habibullah” — the 155th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.