Hiba

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hiba: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hiba: Recorded since 1983, its highest recorded position is #254, and it stood at #470 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
73times a registrar ranked it
43years from first to last
#254highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1666
1998	#1211
1999	#1261
2000	#1195
2001	#936
2002	#998
2003	#712
2004	#821
2005	#680
2006	#659
2007	#469
2008	#487
2009	#576
2010	#576
2011	#635
2012	#596
2013	#479
2014	#541
2015	#649
2016	#622
2017	#574
2018	#583
2019	#554
2020	#430
2021	#443
2022	#361
2023	#336
2024	#254

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 33 of the 43 years from 1983 to 2025.

In 2025: #470 among girls in Norway, #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1983–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1983
First recorded at #411 among girls in Norway in 1983 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #254 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #470 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Hiba appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 33 years beginning in 1983, and has registered 210 births with the name.

Hiba across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Hiba's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#411 (1983)	#334 (2018)	#470 (2025)	33 of 43	210 (1983–2025)	12 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#534 (1996)	#483 (2025)	#483 (2025)	10 of 30	36 (1996–2025)	7 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#254 (2024)	#254 (2024)	29 of 29	1,861 (1996–2024)	191 (2024)

Hiba by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hiba in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980sbusiest	42	5 of 10	8
1990s	46	8 of 10	6
2000s	49	9 of 10	5
2010s	64	9 of 10	7
2020s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Hiba appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1983 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #254 in England and Wales in 2024.

Hiba's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#254	191	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#336	129	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#361	118	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#443	99	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#430	99	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#554	73	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#583	71	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#574	75	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#622	68	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#649	63	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#541	78	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#479	88	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#596	71	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#635	63	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#576	69	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#576	66	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#469	84	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#659	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#680	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#821	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#712	39	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#998	22	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#936	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#470	5	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#488	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#392	8	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#334	12	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#489	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#488	6	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#454	7	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#496	6	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#582	4	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#417	9	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#482	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#594	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#595	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#516	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#547	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#526	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#419	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#545	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#505	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#505	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#528	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#577	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#494	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#597	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#649	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#517	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#486	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#488	8	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#412	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#501	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#411	9	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#351	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1983 and 2025, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #254, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 191 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 41 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Hetvi · #3549, 10y
Hezekiah · #829, 24y
Hibah · #712, 29y
Hibba · #776, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alisa · #255, 45y
Gene · #255, 37y
Ray · #251, 40y
Alec · #249, 42y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Orlaigh · #254, 21y
Deane · #255, 12y
Leanna · #253, 41y
Chantel · #252, 25y

Hiba was ranked #254 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hiba and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hiba without appearing here.

Hiba moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1195 and #1095 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #936 and #2023.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1755 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1666 and #2738.
Finlay Compare
In 2002 they stood at #998 and #998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #712 and #1325.
Barbara Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1195 and #1139 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #936 and #1520.

Moved ahead of Hiba

Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #576 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #635 and #261.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #635 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #596 and #284.
Mathilde Compare
In 1987 they stood at #412 and #450 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #488 and #216.
Abigail Compare
In 2011 they stood at #417 and #494 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #582 and #315.

Moved the opposite way to Hiba

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hiba went from #1755 to #254 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hiba went from #1755 to #254 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hiba went from #1755 to #254 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hiba went from #1755 to #254 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Hiba

Grethe Compare
Between 1983 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Hiba went from #411 to #582 and Grethe from #251 to #576.
Hege Compare
Between 1983 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Hiba went from #411 to #582 and Hege from #23 to #580.
Mette Compare
Between 1983 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Hiba went from #411 to #582 and Mette from #82 to #542.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hiba went from #1755 to #254 and Ada from #2683 to #40.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1983 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #254 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hiba

Hiba at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hiba across 3 official records

Hiba by decade in Norway · Girls

Hiba appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Hiba and the names beside it

Hiba moved ahead of

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Hiba at a glance

Hiba across 3 official records

Hiba by decade in Norway · Girls

Hiba appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Hiba

Hiba and the names beside it

Hiba moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hiba

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