Kibby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized spelling of Welsh Cybi, probably a habitational name from Caergybi, the Welsh name of Holyhead
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɪbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kibby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 255K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 115K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 203K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)
1,306 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized spelling of Welsh Cybi, probably a habitational name from Caergybi, the Welsh name of Holyhead. The surname is common in Somerset and Wiltshire, England.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kibby 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,306 | 1 in 255K | 1.3K | Kibby | 230 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Kibby | 70 |
| GH Ghana | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Kibby | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Kibby | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Kibby | 14 |
| AU Australia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Kibby | 47 |
1,306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Kibby is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Americanized spelling of German Kibi (see Kibbee) or Kibbe.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Geoffrey Kibbyb. 1900British mycologist
- Bill Kibbyb. 1903AUrecipient of the Victoria Cross
- Morgan Kibbyb. 1983USAmerican singer and pianist (born 1983)
- Epaphras KibbyUSKibby, Epaphras; class of 1834
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,898 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Kibby come from?
- Anglicized spelling of Welsh Cybi, probably a habitational name from Caergybi, the Welsh name of Holyhead. The surname is common in Somerset and Wiltshire, England. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kibby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɪbi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kibby mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of Welsh Cybi, probably a habitational name from Caergybi, the Welsh name of Holyhead.
- In which country does Kibby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Kibby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kibby.
- How common is the name Kibby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,306 people named Kibby in 2010, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kibbyThe 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, “Kibby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.