Habibi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: darling
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/habˈibi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Habibi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 449K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 316
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
darling
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Habibi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 316 | 3 | — | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Habibi | 94 |
| IR Iran | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Habibi | 24 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 71 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 741 | 1 in 449K | 1.4K | Habibi | 206 |
| NO Norway | 400 | 1 in 14K | 400 | Habibi | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 350 | 1 in 29K | 350 | — | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Habibi | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Habibi 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.
from an adjectival derivative of Habib.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, a darling (someone beloved)
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)
- Emil Habibib. 1922ILPalestinian-Arab-Israeli writer and politician (1922-1996)
- Emam-Ali Habibib. 1931IRIranian wrestler (1931–2025)
- Mohammad Nabi Habibib. 1945IRIranian politician
- Shafiqa Habibib. 1946AFAfghan journalist
- Goudarz Habibib. 1947IRIranian association football player
- Hamed Habibib. 1978IRIranian writer and poet
- Natavan Habibib. 1981TMactress
- Elnaz Habibib. 1988IRIranian actress
- Nematullah Habibib. 2000AFbadminton player
- Ramin Habibib. 2004DEsinger
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 741 | #31,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 523 | #39,560 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 400 | #3,623 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 350 | #2,570 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 200 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #19 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- 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 Habibi mean, and where does it come from?
- darling Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Habibi?
- A machine transcription gives /habˈibi/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Habibi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 116 thousand people named Habibi in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Habibi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 741 people named Habibi in 2010, about 1 in 449 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/habibiThe 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, “Habibi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.