Hiba
Just 27 women in Poland carry it, and it goes to no newborns now: most Poles will never meet a Hiba. The name means "gift".
Hiba Pronunciation
Hiba is pronounced KHEE-bah (/ˈxiba/).
What Hiba means
Where Hiba comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hiba means gift. In Polish, dar. The fields place its origin as Slavic and its cultural home as Arabic, so the name arrives from two directions at once.
In Arabic, the word هبة (hiba) names a gift, something handed over freely rather than sold. The same root covers a grant or a donation given into someone's keeping. The reading "gift" comes to the name through that Arabic association, not from a long line in Polish. It is a short word for a simple idea, four letters that a Polish speaker can read on sight.
The name has no diminutive and no variant on record, so on a class register in Poland it appears whole, Hiba and nothing shortened. There is no fixed imieniny for it in the Polish calendar. What the page holds is one plain word, a gift, dar.
How many people are named Hiba
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Hiba. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8063 among female names.