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Heba

About 1,403 American babies have been named Heba since 1978, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 5,917th. About 1,400 Hebas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Heba

By the numbers

Total US births
1,403
Estimated living today
1,400
Median age today
21
Peak year
2007
Best rank
3,289th
Rank in 2025
5,917th
First recorded
1978

How old the living Hebas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,403 babies given the name since 1978, about 1,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 550 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Heba is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Heba is most concentrated in Michigan (3.6×), New Jersey (3.2×), New York (3.1×), California (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Heba peaked:

All the names of 2007

Heba elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Heba 390 1,126th
France girls Heba +1 spelling 105 3,083rd
Switzerland girls Heba 8 1,792nd
Ireland girls Heba 6 896th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Heba: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Heba 8 0.001% 1,346th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Heba by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 6 538th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Heba among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Heba 29 29

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Heba lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 224 women called Heba were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Castellón/Castelló Heba 8 0.025 1,935
Lleida Heba 5 0.022 2,103
Almería Heba 6 0.016 2,699
Málaga Heba 12 0.013 3,003
Murcia Heba 10 0.013 2,693
Girona Heba 5 0.012 3,235

Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Heba against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.