Tiben

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tiben is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.3M(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 3.2M
  • NONorway≈1 in 3.6M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈68 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TibenLatin(measured from records)
ቲበንEthiopic(measured from records)

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tiben 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.

Where Tiben is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈68 est.≈1 in 3.2M—Tiben4
MY Malaysia≈25 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Tiben10
CO Colombia≈10 est.≈1 in 4.7M—Tiben3
PH Philippines≈8 est.≈1 in 14M—Tiben2
US United States≈3 est.≈1 in 106MlistedTiben28
NO Norway≈2 est.≈1 in 3.6M11—2

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tiben is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Tîbèn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tibén

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Тибен, Thyben

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tiben 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.

  • In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of tibar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Maltese, straw

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Tiben
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—11#54,846
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

Is Tiben a male or female name?
Tiben is a female 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 Tiben have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 68 people named Tiben in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiben.
How common is the name Tiben?
Mondonomo estimates about 68 people in Nigeria have Tiben as their first given name, about 1 in 3.2 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiben

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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, “Tiben”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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