Chiba

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chiba is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ちば.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 42K
  • FIFinland1 in 242K

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.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

≈79,000 people, est.

Sources
131 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Japan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Rōmaji transcription of ちば

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chiba 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.

Where Chiba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan≈79,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Chiba131
DZ Algeria≈1,000 est.≈1 in 42Klisted—2
BR Brazil5011 in 423K501—1
US United States3601 in 924K360—123
IN India2541 in 5.2M254—9
FR France≈210 est.≈1 in 325K27—1
FI Finland231 in 242K23——

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chiba is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom

    Also written Čhïbä

  • Spanish name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chibà, Chibá, Chîbà, Çhïbã

  • French name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Chība, Chîbâ, Chîbặ, Çhiba

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Chibà

  • Arabic name13 spellings in the group

    Also written Chibä, Čhîbă, Čhïbä, Čhįbã, Chïba

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chiba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, prefecture, Japan

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Spanish, Chiba (a prefecture of Japan)

    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)

19201940196019802000千葉真一, b. 1939Tetsuya Chiba, b. 1939Keiko Chiba, b. 1948Shigeru Chiba, b. 1954Mika Chiba, b. 1972Reiko Chiba, b. 1975Naoki Chiba, b. 1977Saeko Chiba, b. 1977Yudai Chiba, b. 1989Shōya Chiba, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Chiba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—501#17,068
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010360#56,710
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020346#62,494
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000345#55,609
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—254#14,972
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—251#558
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199127—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23#40,894
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19518—

Reference works 3

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 Chiba mean, and where does it come from?
Rōmaji transcription of ちば Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Chiba have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Chiba in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chiba.
How common is the name Chiba?
In Brazil, the national register counted 501 people named Chiba, about 1 in 423 thousand residents.

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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, “Chiba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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