Tibu

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Tibu is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Colombia, Mexico, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Tibú, Tíbú, Țibu

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Ţibu

• English given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, South Africa, Ghana

  Also written Țibu

• Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania

  Also written Țibu, Țîbu

42 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.

Tibu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In gil, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, grandparents and their ancestors, grandchildren and their descendants, adopted child, adopter, god-father, godmother, god-child

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In English, Alternative form of Toubou.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swahili, to treat, to cure, to heal

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dag, healing

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

• In Latvian, Sauciens (parasti atkārtojumā), ar kuru aicina (piemēram, pie ēdiena) vistas, cāļus

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Hamitu un nēģeru mistru tauta Sahāras vidienē, islāmticīgie

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

• Kazuki Chibub. 1995JPnot in their usual nameJapanese 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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Tibu?

In Spanish /tibu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Tibu a male or female name?

Tibu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

In which country does Tibu have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Tibu in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tibu.

How common is the name Tibu?

Mondonomo estimates about 1,900 people in India have Tibu as their first given name, about 1 in 764 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.