Thisbe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: One of a pair of ill-fated lovers, whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θɪsb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thisbe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 425K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 5.2M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 425K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
One of a pair of ill-fated lovers, whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thisbe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 10M | 5 | Thisbe | 37 |
| SE Sweden | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 7.9M | — | Thisbe | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Thisbe | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Thisbe | 9 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Thisbe is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, mythological lover of Pyramus
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Thfvai [Thebes]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, town, Greece
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, A maiden beloved by Pyramus
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thisbe K. Lindhorstb. 1962DEGerman chemist and biochemist
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,125 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 11 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 11 | #21,186 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 10 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 8 | #32,545 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Thisbe mean, and where does it come from?
- One of a pair of ill-fated lovers, whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Thisbe?
- A machine transcription gives /θɪsb/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Thisbe a male or female name?
- Thisbe is a female 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 Thisbe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 people named Thisbe in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thisbe.
- Where is Thisbe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thisbe is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 425 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thisbe?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 24 people named Thisbe, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thisbe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thisbeThe 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, “Thisbe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.