Huda

What Huda means

Means “guidance”

Borrowed from Arabic هُدًى (hudan, “guidance”)

Source: Wiktionary, “Huda” (revision 93397123), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Huda?

US: Rising: up from #2685 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #909 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 117 girls got the name (#1733 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 13,737 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,412 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VA (0.3 per 1,000 girls), IL (0.23 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Huda is #1733 in the US and #396 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Huda were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Hoda9 US
• Hedy7 US
• Hada7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Houda
• Hoda

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Huda

Girls

• Noor#659“light”^*
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies

For a brother

• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Yousef#744Editor’s note Up from #788 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 in the US
• Zayn#251“beauty”^*
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Huda’s. Rank is US 2025.