Tiba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Smyrna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tibɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tiba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 353K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- ESSpain1 in 1.1M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 353K (inferred from the name graph)
600 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Smyrna
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 600 | 1 in 353K | 600 | Tiba | 63 |
| ES Spain | 47 | 1 in 1.1M | 47 | Tiba | 9 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 31 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 17 | — | — |
600 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Tiba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, goodness; good nature
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Indonesian, synonym of datang (“to arrive; to come”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, to think over, contemplate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, medical treatment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, to hit, strike
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Içami Tibab. 1941BRBrazilian physician, writer and columnist
- Dan Tibab. 1953ROPh.D. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi 1982
- István Tibab. 1962HUHungarian politician
- Zsuzsanna Tibab. 1976HUHungarian water polo player (1976–)
- Pedro Tibab. 1988PTPortuguese footballer
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 38 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 600 | #14,456 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 47 | #47,017 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 47 | #46,316 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #53,465 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #71,182 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #189,246 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #241,236 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Tiba mean, and where does it come from?
- from Smyrna Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Tiba?
- A machine transcription gives /tibɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Tiba have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 600 people named Tiba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiba.
- Where is Tiba most common?
- Tiba is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 353 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tiba?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 600 people named Tiba, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tiba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tibaThe 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, “Tiba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.