Katiba

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a constitution (formal or informal system of primary principles and laws regulating a government or other institutions)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries

/katiɓa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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Katiba is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 430Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.7M
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Katiba 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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈340 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
79 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 137K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
KatibaLatin(measured from records)
კათიბაGeorgian(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.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

a constitution (formal or informal system of primary principles and laws regulating a government or other institutions)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Katiba 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 Katiba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria≈340 est.≈1 in 137KlistedKatiba8
MA Morocco≈250 est.≈1 in 151K—Katiba9
FR France≈160 est.≈1 in 433K—Katiba79
SY Syria≈41 est.≈1 in 606K—Katiba6
ES Spain291 in 1.7M29——
GE Georgia24as კათიბა1 in 167K24Katiba5
BE Belgium≈20 est.≈1 in 596K—Katiba5

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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the dz-kaggle-names 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Katiba is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Катиба, Катіба

25 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalBonjour Katiba,Hi Katiba, (English)

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)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Katiba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—29#43,371
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28#20,665
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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 Katiba mean, and where does it come from?
a constitution (formal or informal system of primary principles and laws regulating a government or other institutions) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Katiba?
It depends on the language: in Swahili /katiɓa/; in Turkish /katiba/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Katiba a male or female name?
Katiba 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.
In which country does Katiba have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 341 people named Katiba in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katiba.
How common is the name Katiba?
In Spain, the national register counted 29 people named Katiba, about 1 in 1.7 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, “Katiba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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