McKibben
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) From Irish Gaelic, ‘son of Fibin’, a pet-form of Philip; (ii) different form of McGibbon
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/məˈkɪbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McKibben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 67K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 107K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 58K
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)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
4,958 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) From Irish Gaelic, ‘son of Fibin’, a pet-form of Philip; (ii) different form of McGibbon.
Cited for this meaning 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)McKibben 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 | 4,958 | 1 in 67K | 5K | McKibben | 312 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | McKibben | 87 |
| IT Italy | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | McKibben | 4 |
| EG Egypt | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | McKibben | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | McKibben | 45 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | McKibben | 45 |
| AT Austria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | McKibben | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | McKibben | 10 |
| IE Ireland | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | McKibben | 14 |
4,958 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mckibben. 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)McKibben 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.
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhibm, a patronymic from Fibin, a pet form of Philip.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giobuin (see McGibbon).
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)- Joseph McKibbenb. 1912USAmerican physicist and engineer
- Howard D. McKibbenb. 1940USUnited States federal judge
- Sherry McKibbenb. 1944GBformer MPhil candidate the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Larry McKibbenb. 1947USAmerican politician
- Chuck McKibbenb. 1947USAmerican actor
- Mike McKibbenb. 1956USAmerican football linebacker
- Bill McKibbenb. 1960USAmerican environmentalist and writer
- Mark A. McKibbenb. 1973USPh.D. Ohio University 1999
- Bess McKibbenbotanical collector in the United States
- Wendell R. McKibbenbotanist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,801 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,687 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 McKibben mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) From Irish Gaelic, ‘son of Fibin’, a pet-form of Philip; (ii) different form of McGibbon. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce McKibben?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkɪbən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McKibben have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named McKibben, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McKibben.
- How common is the name McKibben?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,958 people named McKibben in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mckibbenThe 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, “McKibben”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.