Ciba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of kura (“hen”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʒiba/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ciba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 714K
- SESweden1 in 785K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,197 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)synonym of kura (“hen”)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ciba 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 | 1,197 | 1 in 32K | 618 | Ciba | 42 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Ciba | 18 |
| FR France | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 8 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Ciba | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | 15 | 1 in 714K | 15 | Ciba | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
1,197 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Ciba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of cibō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »atelestus Er.«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, Neliels, liekts iegarens vai apaļš (krijas vai bērza tāss) trauks ar vāciņu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sauciens,ar kuru aicina (piemēram, pie ēdiena) vistas, cāļus
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vista; cālis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ludwik Cibab. 1894PLOfficer of the Polish Army
- Robert Cibab. 1969PLPolish sportsperson
- Kamila Cibab. 1995PLPolish athletics competitor
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 618 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 618 | #5,097 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 579 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 579 | #5,586 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15 | #64,079 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 15 | #16,840 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,670 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #61,543 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Ciba mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of kura (“hen”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ciba?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /ʒiba/; in Polish /ˈt͡ɕi.ba/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /siba/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ciba have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Ciba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ciba.
- Where is Ciba most common?
- Ciba is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ciba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,197 people named Ciba in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ciba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cibaThe 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, “Ciba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.