McGibbon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gaelic Mac Giobuin, ‘son of Gibbon (i)’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈɡɪbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McGibbon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 381K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 381K (inferred from the name graph)
874 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
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(measured from records)
from Gaelic Mac Giobuin, ‘son of Gibbon (i)’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McGibbon 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 | 874 | 1 in 381K | 921 | McGibbon | 4 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 1 | 1 in 10M | 1 | — | — |
874 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
McGibbon 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 English, ‘son of Gibbon’; first attested Thomas Makgibbon 1507 (JMac)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giobuin, a patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Gilbert, found in Connacht and Limerick in Ireland, and also in Scotland, where it is sometimes Anglicized as McKibben.
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)
- Elizabeth McGibbonb. 18483 Mar 1848 Caledon, Ontario - 11 Jan 1917 Toronto
- Peter Robert McGibbonb. 1854CACanadian politician (1854-1921)
- Charlie McGibbonb. 1880GBEnglish footballer (1880-1954)
- Pauline Mills McGibbonb. 1910CALieutenant Governor of Ontario (1910–2001)
- Doug McGibbonb. 1919GBEnglish footballer (1919-2002)
- Josann McGibbonb. 1940USAmerican television producer and writer
- Ian McGibbonb. 1947NZNew Zealand historian
- Pat McGibbonb. 1973GBNorthern Irish footballer
- Lewis McGibbonb. 1991GBBritish actor
- T.J. McGibbonb. 2005CACanadian-American actress
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 921 | #27,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 874 | #27,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 819 | #27,669 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,444 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #87,307 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 McGibbon mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gaelic Mac Giobuin, ‘son of Gibbon (i)’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce McGibbon?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡɪbən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McGibbon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 874 people named McGibbon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcgibbon.
- Where is McGibbon most common?
- McGibbon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 381 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name McGibbon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 874 people named McGibbon in 2010, about 1 in 381 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcgibbonThe 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, “McGibbon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.