# Habakkuk (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/habakkuk/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “embrace”, “garden herb” |
| Pronunciation | /həˈbæk.ək/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Habakuk, Habacuc |
| US babies named this | 20 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (ḥăḇaqqūq). The name perhaps comes from חָבַק (ḥāḇaq, “embrace”), or perhaps from Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣 (ḫambaqūqu [ḫa-am-ba-qu-qu], “garden herb”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | 11,086 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,881 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,570 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Ամբակում
- Bulgarian: Аваку́м
- Czech: Abakuk
- Danish: Habakkuk
- Dutch: Habakuk
- Estonian: Habakuk
- Finnish: Habakuk
- French: Habacuc
- German: Habakuk
- Greek: Αββακούμ, Αβακούμ
- Hungarian: Habakuk
- Icelandic: Habakkuk
- Italian: Abacuc
- Japanese: ハバクク
- Latin: Habacuc
- Latvian: Habakuka
- Lithuanian: Habakukas
- Norwegian: Habakkuk
- Polish: Habakuk
- Portuguese: Habacuque

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.