Bibi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Bi-Bi in GY Guyana, บบ in TH Thailand and Bebe in LA Laos.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Bibi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate surname43K records spelled Bibi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Morocco

  Also written Bíbí, Bîbî, Bibí, Bībī

• Turkish given name15K records spelled Bibi36 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, India, Russia, Türkiye

  Languages: Turkish, Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Биби, Beebe, Бібі, Бебе, BeBe

• Finnish surname6.2K records spelled Bibi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Finland, United Kingdom, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Bïbï, Bíbí

• Czech surname1.4K records spelled Bibi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Czechia, Slovakia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Bíbí, Bibí

• a separate surname1.0K records spelled Bibi7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States

  Also written Bïbî, Bíbi, Bîbï, Bíbī, Bíbí

43 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.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Arabic, lady, miss

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• lady

  as a name·African Names

• In Arabic, lady of rank, an horrific title used at the end of

  as a name·A 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 word·Grammar 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 105 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 648 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bibi?

We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Bibi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Bibi have the most bearers?

Bibi is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled bibi.

How common is Bibi compared with other names?

In Pakistan, Bibi is the 17th most common surname of 47,691 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Bibi mean?

Recorded meaning: East African/Kiswahili: “daughter of a king”; also “lady” or “grandmother.”