Hibo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hibo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. In Djibouti it is the 13th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 622K(measured from records)
- DJDjibouti≈1 in 492
- SOSomalia≈1 in 8.1K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 492 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Djibouti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hibo 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.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023); Journal Officiel — Decret 2023-028, listes des candidats (legislatives 2023); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Hibo 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 Slovenian, accusative/instrumental singular of hiba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, vocative singular of hibă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, instigation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, fuzz
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)
- Hibotepb. 1992ETnot in their usual nameEthiopian DJ
- Hibo WardereSOauthor
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #75,704 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Hibo a male or female name?
- Hibo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Hibo?
- In the etymology graph, Hiba is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hibo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Hibo in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hibo.
- How common is the name Hibo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 535 people named Hibo in 2020, about 1 in 622 thousand residents.
- How common is Hibo compared with other names?
- In Djibouti, Hibo is the 13th most common given name of 69 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hibo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiboThe 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, “Hibo” — the 13th most common given name in Djibouti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.