Bibi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bibi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: East African/Kiswahili: “daughter of a king”; also “lady” or “grandmother”.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 30K
- INIndia1 in 95K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bibi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #277 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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(measured from records)
East African/Kiswahili: “daughter of a king”; also “lady” or “grandmother.”
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bibi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #15 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Bibi | 87 |
| US United States | — | 14,847as Beebe | 1 in 22K | 15K | Bibi | 304 |
| IN India | #53 | 13,951 | 1 in 95K | 14K | Bibi | 78 |
| BD Bangladesh | #101 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Bibi | 38 |
| DZ Algeria | #533 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Bibi | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 804 | 1 in 6.8K | 2.9K | Bibi | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 373 | 1 in 16K | 4K | Bibi | 65 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Bibi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Muslim name, from Persian: ‘lady of the house’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Arabic, lady, miss
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
lady
as a nameAfrican Names
In Arabic, lady of rank, an horrific title used at the end of
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In lua, carelessly, roughly, w’rongly, wrong, enza or osa or kixa with b., to err, sin, transgress, do wrong, enzela, b., to injure, harm, do wrong to.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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)
- Hadj Mohamed Bibib. 1906TNTunisian notary and businessman
- Aryeh Bibib. 1943ILIsraeli politician
- Asia Bibib. 1971PKPakistani woman accused of blasphemy
- Zainab Bibib. 1974PKpart time record holder for the UK's tallest woman
- Ghulam Bibib. 1977PKpolitician in Pakistan
- Jonathan Bibib. 1984SCfootballer
- Natacha Bibib. 1984SCSeychellois footballer and athlete (born 1984)
- Noa Bibib. 2000MUMauritian sprinter
- Eitan BibiILresearcher
- Amina Bibi DerbelTNTunisian researcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14K | #797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,762 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 955 | #24,529 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 804 | #1,501 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 402 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 373 | #1,223 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Bibi mean, and where does it come from?
- East African/Kiswahili: “daughter of a king”; also “lady” or “grandmother.” Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Bibi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 134 thousand people named Bibi in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bibi.
- How common is the name Bibi?
- In India, the national register counted 13,951 people named Bibi, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Bibi compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Bibi is the 15th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bibiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bibi” — the 15th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.