Shiban
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ʃibən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shiban is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- YEYemen≈1 in 957K
- CNChina≈1 in 87Kas Shibin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shiban itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Shibin, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shivin in US United States, NL Netherlands, SG Singapore and Shi-Bin in CN China, TW Taiwan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shiban 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Shi-Bin | 40 |
| US United States | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 33 | Shivin | 63 |
| NL Netherlands | 33as Shivin | 1 in 524K | 33 | Shivin | 3 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 717K | — | Shi-Bin | 6 |
| YE Yemen | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 957K | 1 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 449K | — | Shivin | 7 |
| LV Latvia | 5as Shibin | 1 in 376K | 5 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Shiban is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "insane."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- John Shibanb. 1953USAmerican television writer and producer
- Baraa ShibanYEYemini human rights activist
- Youssef Shibanresearcher
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YE Yemen | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #26 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shiban?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃibən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shiban a male or female name?
- Shiban is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shiban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Shibin in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shiban most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shiban is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shiban?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Shiban in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shiban?
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/shibanThe 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, “Shiban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.