Entry № 3933 · Kashmiri origin

Habba Habba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAB-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Kashmiri
Meaning
"Kashmir's poet-queen (Habba Khatoon)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Kashmiri)

A name that means "kashmir's poet-queen (habba khatoon)".

Habba Khatoon (1554-1609) — "Lady Habba" — was the Kashmiri Sufi poet who became Queen of Kashmir as the wife of King Yusuf Shah Chak (the last independent ruler of Kashmir). After Akbar arrested her husband and exiled him, she wandered Kashmir mourning him for the rest of her life — composing lol (Kashmiri love-lyric) songs that shaped the Kashmiri vernacular literary tradition. The Habba Khatoon Peak in Kashmir is named after her.

The "Nightingale of Kashmir."

Nightingale of Kashmir. The queen-poet who mourned her exiled husband for life.

The name in its native script.

حبہ خاتون
Transliteration
Habba Khātūn
Pronunciation
/ ˈhæb.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Habba stands.

Habba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Habbas before her.

Real people
Habba Khatoon
Kashmir's queen-poet.
1554 – 1609
In fiction
Habba
Kashmiri lol songs.

Names connected to Habba.

The number behind Habba.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Habba reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.