Habeeb
given name · Latin script
Meaning: beloved
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæbib/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Habeeb is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 14K
- USUnited States1 in 134Kas Habib
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 Habeeb 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
beloved
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Habeeb 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #770 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Habeeb | 93 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Habeeb | 22 |
| US United States | — | 2,490as Habib | 1 in 134K | 6.3K | Habeeb | 208 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Habeeb | 64 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,332as Habib | 1 in 7.7K | 1.3K | — | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #812 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Habeeb | 59 |
| KW Kuwait | #911 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Habeeb | 32 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Habeeb is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Habib.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Habib Srourb. 1860LBnot in their usual nameLebanese painter
- Habib Abidb. 1960TNnot in their usual nameTunisian politician
- Habib Hasanb. 1962BDnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Habib Wahidb. 1979BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi singer, composer
- Ahsan Habib Parashb. 1980BDnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Puffy L'zb. 1995CAnot in their usual nameCanadian rapper
- Habeeb Bellob. 1996NGbadminton player
- Habib Diarrab. 2004SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer (born 2004)
- Habib FaisalINnot in their usual nameFilm screenwriter and director
- Habib BorjianIRnot in their usual nameIranian linguist
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 30 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,680 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 863 | #27,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 710 | #30,929 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 95 | #7,528 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Habeeb mean, and where does it come from?
- beloved Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Habeeb?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæbib/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Habeeb a male or female name?
- Habeeb 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 Habeeb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Habeeb in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled habeeb.
- How common is the name Habeeb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,490 people named Habib in 2020, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Habeeb compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Habeeb is the 770th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/habeebThe 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, “Habeeb” — the 770th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.