Vibeke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vibeke är en lågtysk-frisisk form av Wibe, Wiba, som i sin tur ursprungligen är en smekform till tyska namn på Wig- ’kamp, strid’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vib̥əkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vibeke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 559(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.1K
- SESweden1 in 16K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 559 (inferred from the name graph)
10,508 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vibeke är en lågtysk-frisisk form av Wibe, Wiba, som i sin tur ursprungligen är en smekform till tyska namn på Wig- ’kamp, strid’. En nordisk variant är → Viveka. En känd namnbärare är författaren Vibeke Olsson (f. 1958). I den rikssvenska almanackan 16 november.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vibeke 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.
10,508 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Vibeke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Danish and Norwegian form of WIBEKE , also in use in Sweden.
as a word
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)
- Vibeke Kruseb. 1609DEMistress of Christian IV of Denmark
- Vibeke Lundeb. 1921NONorwegian sailor (1921–1962)
- Vibeke Løkkebergb. 1945NONorwegian actor (born 1945)
- Mimi Jakobsenb. 1948DKnot in their usual nameDanish politician
- Vibeke Knudsenb. 1948NONorwegian diplomat (1948-2016)
- Vibeke Windeløvb. 1950DKfilm producer
- Janne Tellerb. 1964DKnot in their usual nameDanish author
- Vibeke Idsøeb. 1965NONorwegian film director
- Vibeke Steneb. 1978NOGothic metal soprano singer (born 1978)
- Vibeke Skofterudb. 1980NONorwegian cross country skier
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Vibeke?
- A machine transcription gives /vib̥əkə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Vibeke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vibeke är en lågtysk-frisisk form av Wibe, Wiba, som i sin tur ursprungligen är en smekform till tyska namn på Wig- ’kamp, strid’.
- Is Vibeke a male or female name?
- Vibeke 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.
- What are other forms of the name Vibeke?
- In the etymology graph, Viveka, Wiebke and Wibke are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vibeke have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Vibeke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vibeke.
- Where is Vibeke most common?
- Vibeke is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 559 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vibeke?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 10,508 people named Vibeke, about 1 in 559 residents.
- How common is Vibeke compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Vibeke is the 95th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vibekeThe 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, “Vibeke” — the 95th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.