Wibowo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Javanese (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/wibˈowo/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Wibowo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 730(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 61K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 65Kfew records
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 734 (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Wibowo
- Indonesian:/wibˈowo/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name from Javanese
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Wibowo is found
(measured from records)Wibowo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #29 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 734 | listed | Wibowo | 250 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Wibowo | 25 |
| US United States | — | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 294 | Wibowo | 157 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Wibowo | 68 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 809K | — | Wibowo | 4 |
| SG Singapore | #915 | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Wibowo | 31 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Wibowo | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Victo Wibowob. 1973TWTaiwanese badminton player
- Michelle Wibowob. 1978GBBritish baker
- Adrian Wibowob. 2006USAmerican–Indonesian soccer 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wibowo mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Javanese Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Wibowo?
- In the etymology graph, Wibawa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wibowo?
- In Indonesian /wibˈowo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wibowo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 386 thousand people named Wibowo in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wibowo. After it come Malaysia, United States, Australia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wibowo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Wibowo in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Wibowo compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Wibowo is the 29th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wibowoThe 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, “Wibowo” — the 29th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.