Tibor
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tibor is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius.
- HUHungary1 in 104◐
- SISlovenia1 in 3.2K
- RORomania1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈102K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 200 ●
- 1 in 104 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
50K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #19 | 93,525△ | 13K rec. | 1 in 104 | 94K | Tibor | 196 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,658 | 5K rec. | — | — | Tibor | 136 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 5,200△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 5.2K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,582 | 525 rec. | — | 379 | Tibor | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,564 | 2K rec. | — | — | Tibor | 105 |
| RO Romania | #384 | 1,996 | 450 rec. | — | — | Tibor | 59 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,293 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Tibor | 79 |
| US United States | — | 1,148 | 19K rec. | 1 in 290K | 1.1K | Tibor | 200 |
| AT Austria | — | 1,001 | 479 rec. | — | 56 | Tibor | 73 |
| CA Canada | — | 893 | 918 rec. | — | 1 | Tibor | 61 |
| HR Croatia | — | 758△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 784 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | #480 | 660△ | 45 rec. | 1 in 3.2K | 670 | Tibor | 24 |
Roughly 94K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 104). 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●
- Hungarian1.5M95%
- Czech25K2%
- English14K1%
- Slovak9.1K1%
- German7.1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 1,506,212 | 95% |
| Czech | 25,338 | 2% |
| English | 14,186 | 1% |
| Slovak | 9,095 | 1% |
| German | 7,140 | 1% |
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●
Tibor is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Tibor är en ungersk form av Tiberius, bildat till namnet på den romerske flodguden Tiberis. Namnet är möjligen av etruskiskt ursprung.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., ungarische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Hungarian: from Latin Tiberius , a derivative of the name (of obscure origin) of the River Tiber. It was borne by the second Roman emperor and by a martyr who was executed in 303 under the Emperor Diocletian, together with Modestus and Florence.
as a word
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Tiburcio
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 25 |
| 2010 | 23 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 28 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 36 |
| 2016 | 25 |
| 2017 | 23 |
| 2018 | 28 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 21 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | 12 |
SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 26 years between 1998–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tibor Déryb. 1894HUHungarian writer (1894–1977)
- Tibor Sekeljb. 1912RSHungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)
- Tibor Gallaib. 1912HUHungarian mathematician (1912–1992)
- Tibor Takácsb. 1954HUHungarian-Canadian film director
- Tibor Nyilasib. 1955HUHungarian footballer
- Tibor Gáspárb. 1957HUHungarian actor
- Tibor Komáromib. 1964HUHungarian wrestler
- Tibor Navracsicsb. 1966HUHungarian politician
- Tibor Benedekb. 1972HUHungarian water polo player and coach (1972-2020)
- Tibor Pleißb. 1989DEGerman basketball player (born 1989)
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 68 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 94K | #13 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5.2K | #256 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.6K | #283 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.6K | #283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,244 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 784 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 758 | #623 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 670 | #502 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 660 | #247 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 512 | #2,726 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 456 | #39 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 379 | #3,807 |
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 · 284 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tibor?
- We estimate roughly 102 thousand people bear Tibor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tibor have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 94 thousand people bear Tibor in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tibor.
- Where is Tibor most common?
- Tibor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 104 people carrying it.
- How common is Tibor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Tibor is the 19th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Tibor a male or female name?
- Tibor is a male 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 Tibor mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Tiberius
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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.
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, “Tibor” — the 19th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.