Mahboba or Mahbuba is a feminine given name of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:

Given name Mahboba Mahboba Hoqooqmal (1944–2020), Afghan politician during Karzai's presidency Mahbouba Seraj (born 1948), Afghan journalist and women's right activist

Mahbuba Mahbuba (1825–1840), an enslaved girl owned by Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau Mahbuba (singer), 9th-century slave entertainer in the Abbasid Caliphate Mahbuba Farzana, Bangladeshi secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Mahbuba Maqsoodi (born 1957), German-Afghan artist Mahbuba Nasreen (born 1963), Bangladeshi academic Mahbuba Rahman (1935–2026), Bangladeshi singer Mahbuba Islam Rakhi (born 1993), Bangladeshi Australian actress, model, and engineer

See also Mehbooba (disambiguation), alternative spelling Mahboubeh, Iranian form of the given name Mahboob, masucline form of the Arabic given name Mahabubabad, a city in Telangana, India, named after Mahboob Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad Mahabubabad (Assembly constituency) Mahabubabad (Lok Sabha constituency) Mahbubnagar, a city in Telangana, India, also named after the Nizam Mahabubnagar district Mahbubnagar (Assembly constituency) Mahbubnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)