Čibej

surname · Latin script

/ʃibej/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Čibej is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 7K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 423K
  • SESweden≈1 in 1M

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

299 people

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cibej in AU Australia, SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Čibej 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.

Where Čibej is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#6562991 in 7K299Čibej12
AU Australia—≈12 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Cibej23
HR Croatia—101 in 423K13Čibej7
SE Sweden—≈10 est.≈1 in 1M—Cibej3
ES Spain—81 in 6.3M8——

299 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Čibej is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cibej

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cibej

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cibej

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Jože Andrej Čibej, b. 1953Angel Čibej, b. 1955Marko Čibej, b. 1962Jaka Čibej, b. 1987

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)

FormalPoštovani Čibej,Dear Čibej, (English)
InformalPoštovani Čibej,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Čibej
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—299#1,296
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202113—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202110#31,659

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Čibej?
A machine transcription gives /ʃibej/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Čibej have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 299 people named Čibej, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čibej.
Where is Čibej most common?
Čibej is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Čibej?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 299 people named Čibej, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
How common is Čibej compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Čibej is the 656th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8Dibej

The 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, “Čibej” — the 656th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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