The Habibi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 741 people carried this name — #31,285 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 400,000 people counted. That is up 42% from 523 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Habibi surname
From a suffixed form of Arabic حَبِيب (ḥabīb, “beloved”), from the root ح ب ب (ḥ b b) relating to love.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Habibi» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 221 people named Habibi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
191 people named Habibi live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 82 people named Habibi.
Most of them — 51 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Gard.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
544 people named Habibi are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Habibi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Emile Habibi 1922–1996 · writer -
Emile Habibi 1922–1996 · writer
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Emile Habibi 1922–1996 · writer
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Emam-Ali Habibi 1931–2025 · film actor -
Emam-Ali Habibi 1931–2025 · film actor
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Emile Habibi 1922–1996 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Habibi.
- Habermann 545 · U.S. census
- Habersetzer 107 · U.S. census
- Haberstroh 738 · U.S. census
- Habert 219 · U.S. census
- Habhab 390 · U.S. census
- Habib 4,932 · U.S. census
- Haby 366 · U.S. census
- Hache 379 · U.S. census
- Hachem 645 · U.S. census
- Hack 6,468 · U.S. census
- Hacker 13,625 · U.S. census
- Hadad 800 · U.S. census
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