Mbiya
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mbiya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 41K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 100K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Mbiya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Mbiya | 13 |
| AO Angola | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Mbiya | 2 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Mbiya | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Mbiya | 6 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Mbiya | 85 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | 1 |
| GA Gabon | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 2 | — | 1 |
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: Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Mbiya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Shona, a kind of round dish used for relish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Nyanja, clay or earthenware pot
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 2 | #93 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028) | 2026 | 1 | #313 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mbiya?
- A machine transcription gives /bija/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mbiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Mbiya in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mbiya.
- How common is the name Mbiya?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 18 people named Mbiya in 2024, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mbiya?
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/mbiyaThe 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, “Mbiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.