Sibiya
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots, 2023
/sɪbʲɪjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibiya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 562(inferred from the name graph)
- SZEswatini≈1 in 2.2K
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.6M
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 562 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
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
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)Sibiya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #46 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 562 | listed | Sibiya | 65 |
| SZ Eswatini | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 9 | — | 3 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Sibiya | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Sibiya | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 24 | Sibiya | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Sibiya | 12 |
| IN India | — | 6 | 1 in 221M | 6 | Sibiya | 18 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Sibiya 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.
In Zulu, A documented Zulu clan name.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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)- Christina Sibiyab. 1900Zulu royal concubine
- Lucky Sibiyab. 1942ZASouth African artist (1942–1999)
- Maxwell Sibiyab. 1956South African politician
- Duduzile Patricia Sibiyab. 1957member of the National Assembly of South Africa
- Sipho Sibiyab. 1971CACanadian soccer player
- Bheki Sibiyab. 1973South African actor and director
- Nelisiwe Sibiyab. 1992ZASouth African actress and singer
- Vusi Sibiyab. 1994ZASouth African soccer player
- Nduduzo Sibiyab. 1995ZAfootball player
- Nondumiso Sibiyab. 1997ZASouth African social entrepreneur and environmental activist
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 9 | #42 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #163,396 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sibiya?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪbʲɪjə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sibiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Sibiya in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibiya.
- How common is the name Sibiya?
- In India, the national register counted 6 people named Sibiya, about 1 in 221 million residents.
- How common is Sibiya compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Sibiya is the 46th most common surname of 285,788 surnames 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/sibiyaThe 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, “Sibiya” — the 46th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.