Nybo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of various farmsteads named with ny ‘new’ + bo ‘home’, or an ornamental name with the same origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɲiboʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nybo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Sudan than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 13K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 862K
- SSSouth Sudan≈1 in 13K
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.
- South Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈830 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of various farmsteads named with ny ‘new’ + bo ‘home’, or an ornamental name with the same origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nybo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SS South Sudan | #174 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nybo | 1 |
| DK Denmark | #612 | 442 | 1 in 13K | 442 | Nybo | 74 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Nybo | 1 |
| US United States | — | 386 | 1 in 862K | 394 | Nybo | 135 |
| NO Norway | — | 188 | 1 in 29K | 188 | Nybo | 24 |
| FI Finland | — | 72 | 1 in 77K | 72 | Nybo | 4 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Poul Friis Nybob. 1869DKDanish painter
- Åsa Nybob. 1971FIFinnish actress
- Chris Nybob. 1977USAmerican politician
- André Nybob. 1995NONorwegian ice hockey player
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 442 | #991 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 394 | #49,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 387 | #56,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 386 | #53,538 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 188 | #8,426 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 72 | #16,622 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 35 | — |
| 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 Nybo mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various farmsteads named with ny ‘new’ + bo ‘home’, or an ornamental name with the same origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nybo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲiboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nybo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 833 people named Nybo in South Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nybo.
- How common is the name Nybo?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 442 people named Nybo, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Nybo compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Nybo is the 174th most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nyboThe 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, “Nybo” — the 174th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.