Houda
An Arabic name meaning "guidance". In Poland it belongs to a small group: about 25 women carry it, and no newborn has been recorded with it this century, so most Poles will never meet one.
Houda Pronunciation
Houda is pronounced kho-OO-dah (/xɔˈuda/).
What Houda means
Where Houda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Houda comes from Arabic. The word هدى, hudā, means guidance, the right path shown to a person who searches for it. The three-letter root h-d-y sits behind a family of Arabic words about showing the way. In the Quran, al-hudā names this exact sense, correct direction from God. The name stays close to that root.
The spelling Houda follows French transliteration. That is why it appears often across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, where French shaped how Arabic names reached paper. In Poland the name is rare. On a school class register it stands out, an Arabic word set among Slavic ones.
A girl named Houda holds a term for the right way forward, and the sense has stayed steady in Arabic-speaking families. The short meaning is one word: guidance.
How many people are named Houda
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Houda. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8535 among female names.
Houda as a middle name
Houda is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4855th, between Hortense (3) and Hrushikesh (3).
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#4853 Hira3
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#4854 Hortense3
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#4855 Houda3
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#4856 Hrushikesh3
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#4857 Husna3