Tubis
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tubis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: — žr. Tūba.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 123K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.9M
- LTLithuania≈1 in 21K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
— žr. Tūba
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tubis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Tubis | 22 |
| PL Poland | 232 | 1 in 165K | 120 | Tubis | 26 |
| US United States | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 120 | Tubis | 99 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Tubis | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Tubis | 20 |
| IL Israel | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 847K | — | Tubis | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Tubis | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tubis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of tuba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, tininess, minuteness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Stublājs vai stumbrs bez lapām vai zariem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maciej Tubisb. 1983PLPolish musician
- Arnold TubisUSPh.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1959
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- What does the name Tubis mean, and where does it come from?
- — žr. Tūba Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- In which country does Tubis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 887 people named Tubis in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tubis.
- How common is the name Tubis?
- In Poland, the national register counted 232 people named Tubis in 2026, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tubis?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tubisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tubis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.