Houda
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Houda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script.
- TNTunisia1 in 535◐
- MAMorocco1 in 909
- DZAlgeria1 in 7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.4K ●
- Sources
- 145 ●
- 1 in 19K ◐
across 9 countries
45K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #78 | 16,896 | 19K rec. | — | listed | Houda | 110 |
| TN Tunisia | #26 | 7,441 | 2.9K rec. | — | 2.3K | Houda | 55 |
| SY Syria | #991 | 3,932 | 4.1K rec. | — | — | Houda | 22 |
| DZ Algeria | #166 | 3,491 | 4.7K rec. | — | listed | Houda | 47 |
| EG Egypt | — | 3,309 | 1K rec. | — | listed | Houda | 45 |
| FR France | — | 2,830△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 24K | 2.8K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,674△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Houda | 54 |
| AU Australia | — | 956 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Houda | 64 |
| US United States | — | 871 | 5.6K rec. | 1 in 382K | 871 | Houda | 145 |
| DE Germany | — | 753 | 806 rec. | — | 1 | Houda | 79 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 662 | 716 rec. | — | — | Houda | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 526 | 360 rec. | 1 in 33K | 526 | Houda | 33 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic37K35%
- French37K35%
- Spanish9.2K9%
- English7.2K7%
- Catalan2.7K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 37,435 | 35% |
| French | 37,090 | 35% |
| Spanish | 9,200 | 9% |
| English | 7,183 | 7% |
| Catalan | 2,674 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 27 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Huda Sha'rawib. 1879EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian feminist and nationalist (1879–1947)
- Huda Akilb. 1945SYnot in their usual nameSyrian-American neuroscientist (born 1945)
- Hoda Barakatb. 1952LBnot in their usual namecontemporary Lebanese and French novelist
- Huda Salih Mahdi Ammashb. 1953IQnot in their usual nameIraqi microbiologist
- Huda Zoghbib. 1954USnot in their usual nameLebanese neurogeneticist
- Huda Ben Amerb. 1954LYnot in their usual nameLibyan poiltician
- Houda Nonoob. 1964BHBahraini diplomat
- Uda Benyaminab. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor, film director and screenwriter
- Houda Miledb. 1987TNTunisian judoka
- Huda El-Muftib. 1994EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 51 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 157 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Houda?
- We estimate roughly 7.4 thousand people bear Houda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Houda have the most bearers?
- Houda is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled houda.
- How common is Houda compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Houda is the 78th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Houda a male or female name?
- Houda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Houda” — the 78th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.