Hiba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hiba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name. In English, recorded as The conifer Thujopsis dolabrata, a cypress (in the broad sense) that is endemic to Japan.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 698(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.1K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 698 (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
The conifer Thujopsis dolabrata, a cypress (in the broad sense) that is endemic to Japan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hiba is read(measured from records)
Hiba is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic45%
gift
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
gift, present
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- French15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hiba in French.
- English8.2%
The conifer Thujopsis dolabrata, a cypress (in the broad sense) that is endemic to Japan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hiba in Turkish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hiba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #83 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 698 | listed | Hiba | 91 |
| SD Sudan | #320 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Hiba | 30 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Hiba | 44 |
| SY Syria | #131 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Hiba | 31 |
| DZ Algeria | #222 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Hiba | 36 |
| TN Tunisia | #999 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Hiba | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,007 | 1 in 12K | 4K | Hiba | 32 |
| LB Lebanon | #449 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Hiba | 53 |
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 ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Hiba is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Gift’, ‘grant’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swahili, gift, present (especially given to show affection)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of hibă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hiba Danielb. 1970SESwedish journalist
- Hiba Farèsb. 1977FRFrench company director
- Hiba Aboukb. 1986ESSpanish actress (born 1986)
- Hiba Tawajib. 1987LBLebanese-Palestinian singer
- Awak Kuierb. 2001EGnot in their usual nameFinnish basketball player (born 2001)
- Hiba Dagheractress and model
- Hiba AbidTNTunisian art historian and curator
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 66 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4K | #1,057 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.2K | #624 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hiba mean, and where does it come from?
- The conifer Thujopsis dolabrata, a cypress (in the broad sense) that is endemic to Japan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hiba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Hiba in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hiba.
- Is Hiba a male or female name?
- Hiba 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.
- What are other forms of the name Hiba?
- In the etymology graph, Hibo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hiba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,007 people named Hiba, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Hiba compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Hiba is the 83rd most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hiba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hibaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hiba” — the 83rd most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.