Huda
Feminine · “right guidance”
Huda is right guidance in Arabic — the word the Quran opens with, calling itself a guidance for the God-conscious.
How old is the name Huda?
Huda first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Huda alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 2,000 people named Huda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Huda most popular?
Huda peaked in 2025, reaching #1733 nationally. Today it ranks #1733, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From hada to Huda
The story of Huda
Huda is a long-established name across the Arabic-speaking world, and the concept is central enough that the word appears throughout the Quran. Arab emigration brought it to Europe and America, where it appears in the registers and is in current use, helped by a widely known Iraqi-American cosmetics founder.
Meaning
right guidance
From the Arabic huda, 'guidance' or 'right direction', from hada, 'to guide'. It is one of the central terms of the Quran, which describes itself as hudan lil-muttaqin, guidance for the God-conscious. The same root gives Mahdi and Hadi. The word is ordinary and undisputed.
How the name formed
- hada
- huda
- Huda
Related forms: هدى · Hüda · Hoda
Pronouncing Huda
HOO-dah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic gives the final vowel a fuller value than English does.
Nicknames for Huda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 2025117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1733reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +44.4%117 in 2025, from 81
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Huda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- هدى in Arabic — transliteration
- Hüda in Turkish — related form
- Hoda in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Hudas among us
people named Huda are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,737 born in 2025 was named Huda
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jannet test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Huda's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jannet climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jannet's path sketches the road Huda is walking now.
Huda is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Huda is headed
Huda should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Huda beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Huda in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The guidance meaning is transparent, undisputed and theologically central.
- It is used across the whole Arabic-speaking world.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- Hoda is an equally established transliteration.
- It reads as specifically Muslim.
- It is very short and can be swallowed by a long surname.
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Feminine · #1733 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Hudas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Huda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Huda in 2025?
- Huda ranks #1733 among US girl names in 2025, with 117 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Huda?
- About 1 in every 13,737 US girls born in 2025 was named Huda — 117 in all.
- Will my child share the name Huda with classmates?
- Huda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Huda
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