Baïba
surname · Latin script
Baïba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1777. From a diminutive form of Barbara.
- LVLatvia1 in 298(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 39K
- DKDenmark1 in 196K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 298 (inferred from the name graph)
6,321 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baiba in LV Latvia, 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)First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1777. From a diminutive form of Barbara.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baïba 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.
6,321 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Baïba mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1777. From a diminutive form of Barbara. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Baïba?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Baïba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baiba. After it come United States, Sweden, Denmark and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Baïba most common?
- Baïba is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 298 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Baïba?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 6,321 people named Baïba, about 1 in 298 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ba%C3%AFbaThe 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, “Baïba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.