Houda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haʊdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Houda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 733(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.7K
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)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 733 (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Houda 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 | #86 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 733 | listed | Houda | 114 |
| DZ Algeria | #117 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | listed | Houda | 53 |
| TN Tunisia | #78 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 2.3K | Houda | 59 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 2.8K | — | 5 |
| EG Egypt | #917 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Houda | 45 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,674 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Houda | 51 |
| SY Syria | #919 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Houda | 23 |
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; the wgnd-eg-names register; the dz-kaggle-names register; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Huda Sha'rawib. 1879EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian feminist and nationalist (1879–1947)
- Huda Akilb. 1945SYnot in their usual nameSyrian-American neuroscientist (born 1945)
- Hoda Barakatb. 1952LBnot in their usual namecontemporary Lebanese and French novelist
- Huda Salih Mahdi Ammashb. 1953IQnot in their usual nameIraqi microbiologist
- Huda Zoghbib. 1954USnot in their usual nameLebanese neurogeneticist
- Huda Ben Amerb. 1954LYnot in their usual nameLibyan poiltician
- Houda Nonoob. 1964BHBahraini diplomat
- Uda Benyaminab. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor, film director and screenwriter
- Houda Miledb. 1987TNTunisian judoka
- Huda El-Muftib. 1994EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
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 52 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.8K | #2,038 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,421 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.3K | #788 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1980 | 2.3K | #4 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Houda?
- A machine transcription gives /haʊdə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Houda a male or female name?
- Houda 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 Houda?
- In the etymology graph, Huda is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Houda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Houda in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled houda.
- How common is the name Houda?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,674 people named Houda, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Houda compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Houda is the 86th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Houda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/houdaThe 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, “Houda” — the 86th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.