Isimbi
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Isimbi is a surname, most frequently recorded in Rwanda. It appears chiefly in Swahili and French, written in the Latin script.
- RWRwanda1 in 2.1K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 563K
- KEKenya1 in 616K
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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●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| RW Rwanda | 79 | 18% |
| PL Poland | 73 | 17% |
| BE Belgium | 71 | 16% |
| FR France | 67 | 15% |
| KE Kenya | 62 | 14% |
≈352 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili17540%
- French10824%
- Polish7317%
- English409%
- German133%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 175 | 40% |
| French | 108 | 24% |
| Polish | 73 | 17% |
| English | 40 | 9% |
| German | 13 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Isimbi 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.
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as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RW Rwanda | NISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex | 2025 | 1.2K | #16 |
| RW Rwanda | NISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex | 2024 | 1.1K | #14 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #95,270 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,297 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #35,006 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #64,147 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #51,161 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #46,002 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 10 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Isimbi?
- Our records include 352 bearers of Isimbi across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Isimbi have the most bearers?
- Isimbi is most frequently recorded in Rwanda.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Isimbi”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.