Baiba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sievietes vārds
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Baiba is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 298(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 39K
- DKDenmark1 in 196K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (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
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sievietes vārds
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baiba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #83 | 6,321 | 1 in 298 | 6.3K | Baiba | 81 |
| IN India | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Baiba | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 532K | — | Baiba | 49 |
| US United States | — | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 148 | Baiba | 87 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Baiba | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 194 | Baiba | 8 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Baiba | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 14 | Baiba | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 9 | 1 in 39K | 9 | — | 3 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Baiba Indriksoneb. 1932LVSoviet and Latvian actress (1932–2024)
- Baiba Cauneb. 1945LVLatvian bicycle racer (1945-2014)
- Baiba Rivžab. 1949LVLatvian politician and economist
- Baiba Dambergab. 1957LVLivonian graphic artist and poet
- Baiba Bražeb. 1966LVLatvian diplomat and politician
- Baiba Sipeniece-Gavareb. 1970LVLatvian actor (born 1970)
- Baiba Brokab. 1973LVLatvian actress (born 1973)
- Baiba Brokab. 1975LVLatvian lawyer and politician (born 1975)
- Baiba Skrideb. 1981LVLatvian violinist (born 1981)
- Baiba Bendikab. 1991LVLatvian biathlete (born 1991)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6.3K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6.3K | #70 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 194 | #4,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 148 | #45,015 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #2,089 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #45,015 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What are other forms of the name Baiba?
- In the etymology graph, Barbara, Bobbie and Bobbi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Baiba a male or female name?
- Baiba is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Norway (SSB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Baiba mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
- In which country does Baiba have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Baiba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baiba.
- Where is Baiba most common?
- Baiba is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 298 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Baiba?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 6,321 people named Baiba, about 1 in 298 residents.
- How common is Baiba compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Baiba is the 83rd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baibaThe 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, “Baiba” — the 83rd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.