Tabi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʰabʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tabi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 3.8K
- GHGhana≈1 in 25K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Tabi is read(measured from records)
Tabi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English33%
Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tabi in French.
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tabi in Spanish.
- Swahili8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tabi in Swahili.
- Turkish5.7%
follower
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tabi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #182 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Tabi | 21 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Tabi | 27 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Tabi | 26 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Tabi | 18 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 155 | — | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Tabi | 1 |
| IN India | — | 222 | 1 in 6M | 222 | Tabi | 7 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
Tabi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Yoruba, alternative form of àbí (“or”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, word used to excuse oneself, and also employed as a greeting
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Filipino, area beside a person or thing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of たび
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- László Tabib. 1910HU(1910–1989) Hungarian writer
- Tabi Mangab. 1994CMCameroonian association football player
- Zsuzsanna TabiHUresearcher
- Shannon TabiNLDutch association football 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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 265 | #526 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 222 | #16,511 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tabi mean, and where does it come from?
- Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tabi?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰabʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tabi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Tabi in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tabi.
- How common is the name Tabi?
- In India, the national register counted 222 people named Tabi, about 1 in 6.0 million residents.
- How common is Tabi compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Tabi is the 182nd most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tabi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tabiThe 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, “Tabi” — the 182nd most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.