Kiba

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of きば

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ciba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kiba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 890K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

305 people

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 890K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Rōmaji transcription of きば

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kiba 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 Kiba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—3051 in 4.3M305—1
PL Poland—431 in 890K29——
ES Spain—71 in 7.1M7——
BE Belgium—31 in 3.9M3Kiba9
CH Switzerland—31 in 2.8M3—1
CD Congo - Kinshasa#157———Kiba6

305 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Kiba is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Киба, Кіба

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kībā

39 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kiba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, alternative form of kaba (“hard and fast heartbeat”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Haitian Creole, Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In iba, left (the west side of the body when one is facing north)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, cherry banana juice, a nonalcoholic mixed drink.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Cebuano, to spill out its container

    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)

1940196019802000Katsumi Kiba, b. 1949Vladimir Kiba, b. 1952Hiroko Kiba, b. 1964Masao Kiba, b. 1974Ali Kiba, b. 1986Chikage Kiba, b. 1995Takatoshi Kiba, b. 2000

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)

FormalMonsieur,Dear Mr Kiba, (English)
InformalBonjour Kiba,Hi Kiba, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Kiba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—544#80
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—305#13,248
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202629—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—29#71,511
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202614—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—14#110,776
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#122,877

Reference works 4

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 Kiba mean, and where does it come from?
Rōmaji transcription of きば Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kiba?
A machine transcription gives /ciba/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Kiba have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 305 people named Kiba, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kiba most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kiba is densest in Poland — about 1 in 890 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kiba?
In India, the national register counted 305 people named Kiba, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
How common is Kiba compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Kiba is the 157th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kiba” — the 157th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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