Habib

6,255 people in the United States were counted with the surname Habib in the 2020 census, making it the 5,382nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,255
Rank: 5,382nd
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

From Arabic حبيب (“beloved”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Habib described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 53.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 32.2%
Black, not Hispanic 7.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Habib

Irfan Habib (born 1931)Indian Marxist historian
Philip Habib (1920–1992)American diplomat
Ali Habib Mahmud (1939–2020)Syrian military officer
Zeynab Habib (born 1975)Beninese singer of world music
Ralph Habib (1912–1969)French film director of Lebanese origin
Khaled Habib (born 1970)Algerian musician

People named Habib with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Habib

Also a first name

Habib has been given to 944 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.