Tibor
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tibor/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tibor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 104(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 7.1K
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- 1 in 104 (inferred from the name graph)
93,525 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tibor is read(measured from records)
Tibor is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hungarian57%
a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tibor in English.
- Slovak8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tibor in Slovak.
- German6.7%
männl. Vom., ungarische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tibor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #14 | 93,525 | 1 in 104 | 94K | Tibor | 205 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 5,200 | 1 in 2.1K | 5.2K | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Tibor | 142 |
| RO Romania | #353 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Tibor | 62 |
| RS Serbia | #393 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Tibor | 37 |
| HR Croatia | — | 758 | 1 in 5.6K | 784 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 660 | 1 in 3.2K | 670 | Tibor | 22 |
93,525 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Tibor is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Tibor är en ungersk form av Tiberius, bildat till namnet på den romerske flodguden Tiberis. Namnet är möjligen av etruskiskt ursprung.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Hungarian: from Latin Tiberius , a derivative of the name (of obscure origin) of the River Tiber. It was borne by the second Roman emperor and by a martyr who was executed in 303 under the Emperor Diocletian, together with Modestus and Florence.
as a word
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Tiburcio
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)
- Tibor Déryb. 1894HUHungarian writer (1894–1977)
- Tibor Sekeljb. 1912RSHungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)
- Tibor Gallaib. 1912HUHungarian mathematician (1912–1992)
- Tibor Takácsb. 1954HUHungarian-Canadian film director
- Tibor Nyilasib. 1955HUHungarian footballer
- Tibor Gáspárb. 1957HUHungarian actor
- Tibor Komáromib. 1964HUHungarian wrestler
- Tibor Navracsicsb. 1966HUHungarian politician
- Tibor Benedekb. 1972HUHungarian water polo player and coach (1972-2020)
- Tibor Pleißb. 1989DEGerman basketball player (born 1989)
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)
Attested in 70 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 94K | #13 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5.2K | #256 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.6K | #283 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.6K | #283 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 784 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 758 | #623 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 670 | #502 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 660 | #247 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 456 | #39 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2024 | 128 | #78 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F) | 2025 | 115 | #82 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 12 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tibor a male or female name?
- Tibor 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 Tibor have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Tibor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tibor.
- Where is Tibor most common?
- Tibor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 104 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Tibor?
- A machine transcription gives /tibor/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What does the name Tibor mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tibor?
- In the etymology graph, Tiburcio is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Tibor?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 93,525 people named Tibor in 2025, about 1 in 104 residents.
- How common is Tibor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Tibor is the 14th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tibor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiborThe 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, “Tibor” — the 14th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.