Mbye
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mbje/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Mbye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 175 people, counted by Skatteverket.
- SESweden1 in 58K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 137K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
175 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mbye
- Swahili:/mbje/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Mbye is found
(measured from records)Mbye 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.
175 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Lamin Abdou Mbyeb. 1934GMGambian diplomat
- Kumbab. 1983GMnot in their usual nameSwedish-Gambian singer, rapper and model
- Mohammed Mbyeb. 1989GMGambian footballer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mbye?
- In Swahili /mbje/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mbye?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 175 people named Mbye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mbye. After it come United States, Norway, Spain and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mbye most common?
- Mbye is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mbye?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 175 people named Mbye, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mbye?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mbyeThe 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, “Mbye” — ranked 4662nd in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.