Ibai
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iβai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ibai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 309K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
9,224 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ibai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 9,224 | 1 in 5.4K | 9.2K | Ibai | 115 |
| FR France | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ibai | 54 |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Ibai | 20 |
| FI Finland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 309K | 20 | Ibai | 1 |
| AR Argentina | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 7 | Ibai | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 1 | Ibai | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 1 |
9,224 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
Ibai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, river
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌹
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, (Voz sin significado, que aparece en estribillos). v. etai. Itai lelo, ibai lelo, / etxean arai leloa. / Damarika dan galantaena / Belagai Butroekoa. Lazarraga B32, 1205r.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Ibai Rejas Garcíab. 1982ESSpanish association football player
- Ibai Iriarte San Vicenteb. 1983ESBasque politician
- Ibai Abadb. 1985ESSpanish film director
- Ibai Zabalab. 1987ESSpanish pelotari
- Ibai Gómezb. 1989ESSpanish professional footballer
- Ibai Salasb. 1991ESSpanish bicycle racer
- Ibai Llanosb. 1995ESSpanish Twitch streamer and esports commentator (born 1995)
- Ibai Azurmendib. 1996ESSpanish cyclist
- Ibai E Valverdeb. 2000FRresearcher
- Ibai Azanzab. 2004ESSpanish cyclist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.2K | #575 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.7K | #278 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 22 | #1,702 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #22,652 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,821 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 12 | #2,090 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2021 | 12 | #2,209 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 10 | #2,434 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 7 | #2,402 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 4 | #3,864 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2014 | 4 | #3,288 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1994 | 4 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Ibai?
- A machine transcription gives /iβai/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ibai a male or female name?
- Ibai is a male 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.
- In which country does Ibai have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Ibai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibai.
- Where is Ibai most common?
- Ibai is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ibai?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,224 people named Ibai, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ibai?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ibaiThe 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, “Ibai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.