Ahab (transliteration: Aḥabb, Arabic: أحبّ) is an Arabic name for boys that means “more beloved”, “more dear”, “most beloved”, “most dear”.1 Ahab is the comparative and superlative form of ḥabīb (“beloved”, “dear”).2
Ahab may also be spelled Ahabb and Eheb. The word Ahab is used in three places in the Quran:
Say, “If your parents, and your children, and your siblings, and your spouses, and your relatives, and the wealth you have acquired, and a business you worry about, and homes you love, are more dear to you than God, and His Messenger, and the struggle in His cause, then wait until God executes His judgment.” God does not guide the sinful people.3
When they said, “Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, although we are a whole group. Our father is obviously in the wrong.4
He said, “My Lord, prison is more beloved to me than what they call me to. Unless You turn their scheming away from me, I may yield to them, and become one of the ignorant.”5
There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad 
named Ahab:
- Ahab bin Malik أحب بن مالك
Below is the name Ahab written in Arabic naskh script:
Below is the name Ahab written in Arabic kufi script:
Jazak Allah brother for this valuable information. My son’s name is Ahab, and someone told me it is the evil Hebrew king Ahab’s name so I should change it. The Arabic meaning that you have given for Ahab is exactly what I had read when I named him 19 years ago. However, I didn’t know that this was also the name of a Sahabi. May Allah bless you and further increase your knowledge.
My name is “Ahab” also
king ahab of israel in the bible wasnt evil, he was just demonized by the priests of juda, because they hat war at this time.
remember the good smaritan, he was an israelit as well as ahab and saved a dying jew. but the rabies of juda didnt care about him, even though he was from juda.
i think the word is related to ahava in hebrew, meaning love.
ther also was a whore in the bible, but her name was rahab, responseble for the death of samson