Kebi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kebi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 510K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 510K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kebi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Kebi | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 510K | — | Kebi | 6 |
| US United States | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 18M | listed | Kebi | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Kebi | 8 |
| PE Peru | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Kebi | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Kebi | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | — |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Kebi 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 men, blacksmith. Kebi- hinda, »., blacksmith’s work
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In nxg, kebhi/ rim, edge, border
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, Štats Nigērijā ("Kebbi"), administratīvais centrs - Birninkebi, platība - 36800 kvadrātkilometru, 3238600 iedzīvotāju (2006. g.), atrodas valsts ziemeļrietumu daļā
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 'Mamoshebi Kabib. 1936LSnot in their usual nameMosotho politician
- Riina Kabib. 1948EEnot in their usual nameEstonian activist (born 1948)
- Boris Kabib. 1984CInot in their usual namefootballer
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #78,873 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kebi?
- A machine transcription gives /kbi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kebi a male or female name?
- Kebi 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.
- In which country does Kebi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 480 people named Kebi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kebi.
- How common is the name Kebi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 480 people in China have Kebi as their first given name, about 1 in 2.9 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kebi?
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/kebiThe 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, “Kebi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.