Mahbuba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: beloved, cherished
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mahbuba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.5K
- USUnited States1 in 942K
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 Mahbuba 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Махбуба in UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan and 1 more.
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)
beloved, cherished.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahbuba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #588 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | Mahbuba | 53 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #277 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | listed | Махбуба | 17 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #145 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Махбуба | 10 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #843 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Махбуба | 7 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #566 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Махбуба | 9 |
| US United States | — | 353 | 1 in 942K | 353 | Mahbuba | 81 |
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 uz-ismlarim register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Mahbuba 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.
In Arabic, dear, beloved, sweetheart; fem. of Mahbub
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim 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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 353 | #26,383 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Mahbuba mean, and where does it come from?
- beloved, cherished. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Mahbuba a male or female name?
- Mahbuba 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.
- In which country does Mahbuba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Mahbuba in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahbuba.
- How common is the name Mahbuba?
- In the United States, the national register counted 353 people named Mahbuba in 2020, about 1 in 942 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahbuba compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mahbuba is the 588th most common given name of 29,323 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/mahbubaThe 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, “Mahbuba” — the 588th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.