Heba

given name · Latin script

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

Heba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Polish chyba or chybać.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 544(inferred from the name graph)
  • JOJordan≈1 in 612
  • SYSyria≈1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈190,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
254 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 544 (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HebaLatin(measured from records)
ሄባEthiopic(measured from records)
헤바Hangul(measured from records)

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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Heba 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 Heba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#49≈190,000 est.≈1 in 544listedHeba153
JO Jordan#283≈18,000 est.≈1 in 612—Heba71
SY Syria#162≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Heba36
SA Saudi Arabia#313≈10,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Heba109
LY Libya#62≈4,900 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Heba27
US United States—2,6851 in 124K2.7KHeba254
KW Kuwait#134≈2,100 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Heba59

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 wgnd-eg-names 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Heba is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom

    Also written Hĕbą, Hębä, Hëbã, Hëbä

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Syria, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хеба

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Héba

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Syria, United Kingdom, Sudan

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hêbà

  • Croatian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Syria, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Kheba, Hèbà, Hěba, Хеба, Hëbä

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Heba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, glamour

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Čehijā ("Cheb"), Karlovi Varu apgabalā, 32600 iedzīvotāju (2012. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1940196019802000Heba, b. 1947Heba Kotb, b. 1967Heba Aly, b. 1983Heba Zagout, b. 1984Heba Yazbak, b. 1985Heba Ahmed, b. 1985Heba Magdy, b. 1988Hiba Abu Nada, b. 1991Heba Allejji, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Heba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.7K#6,081
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202520—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013#6,081
EG EgyptWGND 2.0 — Egypt given names———

Reference works 7

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 Heba mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Polish chyba or chybać. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon.
Is Heba a male or female name?
Heba 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 Heba have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 191 thousand people named Heba in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heba.
How common is the name Heba?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,685 people named Heba in 2020, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
How common is Heba compared with other names?
In Egypt, Heba is the 49th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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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, “Heba” — the 49th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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