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Huma Huma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOO-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Phoenix bird (Persian-Urdu + national bird of Pakistan)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian-Urdu)

A name that means "phoenix bird (persian-urdu + national bird of pakistan)".

Huma is from the Persian / Urdu هما (Humā — phoenix-like bird of paradise + bird of fortune). Huma is one of the Persian + Urdu feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Mughal heritage.

Phoenix bird (Persian-Urdu).

The name in its native script.

هما / ہما
Transliteration
Humā
Pronunciation
/ ˈhuː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Huma stands.

Huma 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.

Humas before her.

Real people
Huma Qureshi
Indian actress + Gangs of Wasseypur 2012 + Maharani 2021.
born 1986
In fiction
Huma (Huma bird)
Persian-Urdu phoenix-like bird of paradise.

Names connected to Huma.

The number behind Huma.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Huma reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.