Habib
Only 83 men in Poland carry Habib, and none were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one. The name is Hebrew at root, meaning the loved one, and it also runs through Arabic naming.
Habib Pronunciation
Habib is pronounced KHAH-beep (/ˈxabip/).
What Habib means
Where Habib comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Habib comes from a Hebrew root, the triliteral ḥ-b-b that speaks of loving and holding someone dear. Its meaning is plain: beloved. The same root gives Arabic its habib, a word you use for a dear one, and it is with Arabic culture that the name is tied most closely today.
In Hebrew the related adjective chaviv means dear or agreeable, a cousin built from those same three consonants. So the name sits across two Semitic languages that shaped it. Habib has no diminutive and no feminine variant in common use. It stands as it is, one word, one sense.
On a Polish class register, Habib marks a family with roots beyond the country. Fill in a form at the urząd and no Polish name-day sits beside it, because the name keeps no imieniny in the Catholic calendar. What it keeps instead is the meaning it began with: beloved.
How many people are named Habib
1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Habib. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3885 among male names.
Habib as a middle name
Habib is a first name for 83 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1328th, between Giang (37) and Jean-Marie (37).
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#1326 Ganesh37
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#1327 Giang37
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#1328 Habib37
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#1329 Jean-Marie37
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#1330 Made37