Gibbens
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 2. German: patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɪbənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gibbens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 172K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 172K (inferred from the name graph)
1,938 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
2. German: patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gibbens 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,938 | 1 in 172K | 1.9K | Gibbens | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Gibbens | 2 |
| CK Cook Islands | — | — | 2 | — | — |
1,938 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gibbens 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 English, patronymic from Gibbon
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Nicholas Gibbensb. 1601(fl. 1601–1602), Church of England clergyman
- Alice Gibbens Jamesb. 1849USAmerican socialite
- Trevor Charles Noel Gibbensb. 1912b.28 December 1912 d.27 October 1983
- Barney Gibbensb. 1935GBIT businessman
- Byrd Gibbensb. 1936USAmerican historian and academic
- Nigel Gibbensb. 1958British veterinarian
- Richard John Gibbensb. 1962GBPh.D. University of Cambridge 1988
- Kevin Gibbensb. 1979GBEnglish footballer (born 1979)
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,966 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 2 | #57 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #202,237 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #26,731 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 does the name Gibbens mean, and where does it come from?
- 2. German: patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gibbens?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɪbənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gibbens have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Gibbens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gibbens.
- Where is Gibbens most common?
- Gibbens is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 172 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gibbens?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,938 people named Gibbens in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gibbensThe 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, “Gibbens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.