Heba

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Heba: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #885, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#885highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#2152
1998	#1979
1999	#2770
2000	#2416
2001	#1170
2002	#2105
2003	#1383
2004	#1312
2005	#1934
2006	#1386
2007	#1126
2008	#1391
2009	#1411
2010	#2104
2011	#2275
2012	#3285
2013	#1864
2014	#1882
2015	#2195
2016	#2547
2017	#2090
2018	#1526
2019	#2170
2020	#2163
2021	#1785
2022	#2058
2023	#2504
2024	#2411

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2018: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1526 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1522 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2018–2025
Highest recorded position: #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2018–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Heba appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 377 births with the name.

Heba across 2 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.

Heba'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#1126 (2007)	#2411 (2024)	29 of 29	377 (1996–2024)	25 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2018)	#885 (2025)	#885 (2025)	2 of 8	6 (2018–2025)	3 (2018)

Heba by decade in England and Wales · 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 Heba in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	31	4 of 10	8
2000sbusiest	157	10 of 10	16
2010s	127	10 of 10	13
2020s	62	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Heba 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #885 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Heba'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	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1126	25	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #885, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 22 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Afra · #885, 27y
Fatiha · #885, 28y
Hadassah · #885, 30y
Soha · #885, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Afra · #885, 27y
Fatiha · #885, 28y
Hadassah · #885, 30y
Janaki · #885, 11y

Heba was ranked #885 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2025. 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.

Heba 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 Heba without appearing here.

Heba moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1882 and #5691.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1526 and #4684.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3285 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1864 and #4739.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1170 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Heba

Riley Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #822.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #938.
Olive Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #1520 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #1104.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1312 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1934 and #951.

Moved the opposite way to Heba

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Heba

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heba went from #1522 to #2411 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #885 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Heba

Heba at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Heba across 2 official records

Heba by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Heba appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Heba at a glance

Heba across 2 official records

Heba by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Heba appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Heba

Heba and the names beside it

Heba moved ahead of

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