Huda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from an Arabic personal name based on Arabic huda ‘right guidance’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hʊdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 95K
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.3K
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 Huda 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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, 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 Houda in ES Spain.
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 an Arabic personal name based on Arabic huda ‘right guidance’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Huda | 9 |
| US United States | 3,492 | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | Huda | 204 |
| CN China | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Huda | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Huda | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Huda | 37 |
| ES Spain | 2,674as Houda | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Houda | 10 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Huda | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 1,183 | 1 in 8.6K | 1.2K | Huda | 13 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Huda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Huda (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller ett ord med betydelsen ’rätt vägledning’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, right, guidance, right path
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Arabic/Muslim (Egypt): 'proper guidance'.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Arabic, guidance, evidence, most beautiful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, weibl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. huda »richtige Führung, besonders im reli giösen Sinn« zu arab. hada »auf den richtigen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Huda Sha'rawib. 1879EGEgyptian feminist and nationalist (1879–1947)
- Huda Sultanb. 1925EGEgyptian actress
- Huda Akilb. 1945SYSyrian-American neuroscientist (born 1945)
- Huda Lutfib. 1948EGvisual artist and cultural historian from Cairo, Egypt.
- Hoda Barakatb. 1952LBnot in their usual namecontemporary Lebanese and French novelist
- Huda Salih Mahdi Ammashb. 1953IQIraqi microbiologist
- Huda Zoghbib. 1954USLebanese neurogeneticist
- Huda Ben Amerb. 1954LYLibyan poiltician
- Houda Nonoob. 1964BHnot in their usual nameBahraini diplomat
- Huda El-Muftib. 1994EGEgyptian 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 74 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #5,049 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,508 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 174 | #10,066 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 168 | #4,643 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 117 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30 | #5,049 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- 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 Huda mean, and where does it come from?
- from an Arabic personal name based on Arabic huda ‘right guidance’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Huda?
- A machine transcription gives /hʊdə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Huda a male or female name?
- Huda 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 Huda?
- In the etymology graph, Houda is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Huda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Huda in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huda.
- How common is the name Huda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,492 people named Huda in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Huda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hudaThe 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, “Huda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.