Kariba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Lake in Zambia and Zimbabwe formed by damming the Zambezi River (African Names)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Antigua & Barbuda ABEC Voter Registration Roll (2026), 2026
/kaɾiɓa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kariba is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 32 people, counted by IBGE in 2022. Kariba is also written კარიბა in Georgian.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.6M(measured from records)
- GEGeorgia1 in 444Kas კარიბა
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kariba itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 1 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6M (inferred from the name graph)
32 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kariba in other scripts: Georgian
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Kariba
- Swahili:/kaɾiɓa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Lake in Zambia and Zimbabwe formed by damming the Zambezi River.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kariba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 32 | 1 in 6.6M | 32 | — | — |
| GE Georgia | 9as კარიბა | 1 in 444K | 9 | Kariba | 1 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | listed | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | — | 1 | — | — |
32 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the african-names-stewart-1993 register; the ag-abec-voter-roll-2026 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)Kariba 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.
Tunis, Sfax; next
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, dam, Zimbabwe, Zambia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latvian, Aprimis vulkāns Japānā, Hokaido salas dienvidrietumu daļā, Osimas pussalā, augstums - 1520 m
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kariba mean, and where does it come from?
- Lake in Zambia and Zimbabwe formed by damming the Zambezi River. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Kariba?
- In Swahili /kaɾiɓa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kariba a male or female name?
- Kariba is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Kariba?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 32 people named Kariba, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Georgia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kariba most common?
- Kariba is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kariba?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32 people named Kariba in 2022, about 1 in 6.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kariba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karibaThe 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, “Kariba” — ranked 90373rd in Brazil (IBGE, 2022). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.