Baiba

given name · Latvian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Baiba is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 298◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M
  • ISIceland1 in 39K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.8K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
71 ●

3.4K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 298 ◐

Latvia

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Latvian

Sievietes vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Baiba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#756,321△931 rec.1 in 2986.3KBaiba68
GB United Kingdom—416307 rec.—listedBaiba41
NO Norway—22330 rec.—194Baiba8
RU Russia—222246 rec.——Baiba5
US United States—2181.2K rec.1 in 1.5M218Baiba71
DE Germany—171168 rec.——Baiba47
AU Australia—140126 rec.—1Baiba30
HR Croatia—61—1 in 69K61——
FI Finland—583 rec.—48Baiba2
SE Sweden—4752 rec.1 in 217K47Baiba13
NL Netherlands—4635 rec.—5Baiba11
IE Ireland—4442 rec.——Baiba8

Roughly 6.3K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 298). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Latvian9.2K70%
  • English1.6K12%
  • German2462%
  • Hindi2362%
  • Spanish2022%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian9,16870%
English1,57912%
German2462%
Hindi2362%
Spanish2022%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Baiba is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name364 records spelled Baiba4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, France, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Baïba, Bàîbà

  • Swahili given name151 records spelled Baiba2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States

    Also written Baïba

  • Russian surname145 records spelled Baiba5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia

    Also written Байба, Баиба

  • Arabic given name134 records spelled Baiba2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, Morocco, Egypt

    Also written Bãībå

  • a separate given name123 records spelled Baiba2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, India

    Also written Baïba

  • Ukrainian surname80 records spelled Baiba3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Latvia

    Also written Байба, Баиба

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040602000200520102015202048 · 2019

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Baiba in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199911
200013
200116
200216
200318
200421
200522
200626
200726
200829
200931
201031
201134
201239
201338
201436
201538
201644
201745
201847
201948
202046

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Baiba Indriksone, b. 1932Baiba Caune, b. 1945Baiba Rivža, b. 1949Baiba Damberga, b. 1957Baiba Braže, b. 1966Baiba Sipeniece-Gavare, b. 1970Baiba Broka, b. 1973Baiba Broka, b. 1975Baiba Skride, b. 1981Baiba Bendika, b. 1991

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●

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Baiba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—6.3K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—6.3K#70
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—194#4,878
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020148#45,015
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—48#9,040
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201948—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—47#14,117
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201847—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202046—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201745—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201644—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201239—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Baiba?
We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Baiba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Baiba have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.3 thousand people bear Baiba in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled baiba.
Where is Baiba most common?
Baiba is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 298 people carrying it.
How common is Baiba compared with other names?
In Latvia, Baiba is the 75th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
Is Baiba a male or female name?
Baiba 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 does the name Baiba mean?
Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Baiba” — the 75th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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