Libya
loc · Latin script
Meaning: republic, Africa
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Libya is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.6Mas Libie
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.8Mas Libie
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Libya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈67 named Libie, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Libie in US United States, PH Philippines, ZA South Africa.
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(measured from records)
republic, Africa
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Libya 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 | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Libie | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Libie | 2 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | 8 | Libie | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.4M | — | Libya | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Libya | 7 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Libya 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, Africa, i.e. the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A country in North Africa. Capital: Tripoli.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, Libya (a country in North Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 6 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Libya mean, and where does it come from?
- republic, Africa Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How common is the name Libya?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Libya in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
- In which country does Libya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 people named Libie in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Libya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Libya is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Libya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/libyaThe 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, “Libya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.