Gilber
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xilβer/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gilber is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 9.4K
- VEVenezuela1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilber counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Gilber | 46 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,798 | 1 in 9.4K | 1.8K | Gilber | 23 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Gilber | 39 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,174 | 1 in 24K | 1.2K | Gilber | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 672 | 1 in 315K | 684 | Gilber | 57 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Gilber | 16 |
| CR Costa Rica | #554 | 262 | 1 in 19K | 262 | Gilber | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gilber Carob. 1974VEVenezuelan politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.8K | #514 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1.8K | — |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 1.2K | #1,367 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 684 | #4,977 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 672 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 666 | #12,000 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 662 | #10,898 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 631 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 560 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 406 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 262 | #1,249 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 244 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gilber?
- A machine transcription gives /xilβer/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Gilber a male or female name?
- Gilber is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gilber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Gilber in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilber.
- How common is the name Gilber?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 1,798 people named Gilber in 2024, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Gilber compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Gilber is the 554th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gilber?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilberThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gilber” — the 554th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.