Giba
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: hump
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 37K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 120K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Giba 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
320 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ziba in US United States.
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)
nickname from gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Giba is read(measured from records)
Giba is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giba in English.
- Spanish8.5%
hump
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giba in Swahili.
- Croatian6.5%
third-person singular present indicative of gibati
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 320 | 1 in 120K | 161 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | 292as Зиба | 1 in 7.3K | 292 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 249 | 1 in 1.3M | 506 | Ziba | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 128as Ziba | 1 in 66K | 128 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 114 | 1 in 37K | 114 | Giba | 21 |
| SI Slovenia | 10as Ziba | 1 in 210K | 10 | — | 1 |
320 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Giba 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.
nickname from gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, third-person singular present of gibać
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, third-person singular present of gibaś
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, destruction; demolition
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)
- Márta Gibab. 1943HUHungarian handball player
- Marcin Gibab. 1979photographer
- Marián Gibab. 1982SKSlovak jurist and lawyer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 254 | #71,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 249 | #77,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 246 | #82,600 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 161 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 161 | #19,654 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 159 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 159 | #20,278 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 114 | #7,088 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 95 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Giba come from?
- nickname from gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Giba?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒbə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Giba mean?
- In Spanish, hump
- In which country does Giba have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 320 people named Giba, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Giba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giba is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Giba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 320 people named Giba in 2026, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Giba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gibaThe 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, “Giba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.