Gibas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a derivative of gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒaɪbəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gibas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 702K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 11K
- HRCroatia1 in 264K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,450 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. from a derivative of gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’. Compare Giba. 2. nickname from the dialect word gibas ‘tall, slim man’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gibas 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 | — | 3,450 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 474 | 1 in 702K | 503 | Gibas | 166 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 24 | 1 in 446K | 24 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 16 | 1 in 264K | 16 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| IM Isle of Man | #118 | — | — | — | Gibas | 1 |
3,450 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Gibas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, Plg. lenk. Gibas, Gybas : lenk. gibas „aukštas lieknas žmogus; ištisęs bernas, vaikas“ (J. Bubak, 1970, p. 116), vok. Gibs, Gibb, Gibbe (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 281).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Tadeusz Gibasb. 1922PLPolish engineer
- Lucjan Gibasb. 1947PLbadminton player
- Jarosław Gibasb. 1967PLPolish sociologist and writer
- Danuta Gibas-KrzakPLPolish political scientist
- Artur GibasPLPolish physician, surgeon
- Magdalena Gibas-DornaPLPolish physiologist
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,638 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,587 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 503 | #45,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 474 | #45,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 451 | #44,821 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 24 | #47,313 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 16 | #25,629 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,050 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #43,374 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Gibas come from?
- 1. from a derivative of gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’. Compare Giba. 2. nickname from the dialect word gibas ‘tall, slim man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gibas?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒaɪbəz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gibas mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a derivative of gibac ‘to bow’ or ‘to wobble’.
- In which country does Gibas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Gibas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gibas most common?
- Gibas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gibas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,450 people named Gibas in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Gibas compared with other names?
- In Isle of Man, Gibas is the 118th most common surname of 521 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gibas?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gibasThe 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, “Gibas” — the 118th most common surname in Isle of Man. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.