Gibe

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of gibar:

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

/ˈdʒaɪb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gibe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 928K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
  • BRBrazil1 in 10M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

21 people

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 928K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inflection of gibar:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gibe 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 Gibe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil211 in 10M21Gibe7
SE Sweden111 in 928K11—1
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
PH Philippines———Gibe14
US United States——listedGibe8
PE Peru———Gibe9

21 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gibe is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines

    Also written Gibé

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

    Also written ጊቤ, ግቤ, ጊበ

34 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)

Gibe is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tut-pro, mare

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In gmh, first-person singular present indicative of gëben

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, genitive singular of giob

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tut-pro, кобыла

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

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)

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)

FormalDear Gibe,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Gibe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—21#188,821
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11#36,559
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#70,516
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Gibe mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of gibar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Gibe?
A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒaɪb/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gibe have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 21 people named Gibe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gibe.
Where is Gibe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gibe is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 928 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gibe?
In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Gibe, about 1 in 10 million 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, “Gibe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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