Labi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: leoa; lioness

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

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

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.3M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

40 people

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

leoa; lioness

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Labi 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 Labi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil401 in 5.3M40——
IN India121 in 111M12——
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3Labi3
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
FR France——17Labi99
CD Congo - Kinshasa———Labi3

40 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

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

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written La'Bi, La'Bi'

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Laḇī

48 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)

Labi 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 kmk, night

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

  • In iba, soft-shelled or freshwater turtle: Trionynx cartilagineus Boulanger and other spp.

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In msk, more; most; to be above; higher; Lord: Most High

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Latvian, nominative masculine plural of labs

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

  • In bbc, a small freshwater turtle: Trionyx

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

18801900192019401960Erni Labi, b. 1895Adrien Labi, b. 1953Robert Labi, b. 1955

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Labi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—40#122,472
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199117—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—16#72,216
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196114—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—12#110,137
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19319—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19516—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19216—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19015—

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Labi mean, and where does it come from?
leoa; lioness Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Labi have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 40 people named Labi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Labi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Labi is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Labi?
In Brazil, the national register counted 40 people named Labi, about 1 in 5.3 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, “Labi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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