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Bibi

#5,432 in 2025Girls' name

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Bibi has been given to 689 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #5,432 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Bibi, 2025

1 in 144,000

Bibi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bibi: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bibi means

Bibi belongs to the name family reached through Bibi → Birgitta → Brigit. Its meaning is “high, exalted”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bibi is used in Portuguese and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gabriela, Birgitta and Brigit.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Bibi is pronounced /biˈbi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 689 girls were recorded with the name Bibi between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,160 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,616 in 2020 to #5,432 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,536 in 2015 to #5,432 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bibi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,432
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bibi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bibi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bibis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bibi was born before 2001 — so the typical Bibi is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
689
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (169).

Is Bibi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,869
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,104
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.6%
Peak was 2018 (34)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,160
2018

Spellings of Bibi

Bibi is not the most common spelling — Bobbi is, with 23.9% against Bibi's 0.68%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bibi is used

Across 1910–2025, Bibi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 181,334 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bibi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bibi around the world

Where Bibi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1925–2025
    #2,221
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2023
    #460
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2012
    #431
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bibi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,432
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,184
Best rank ever
#4,160
2018
Peak year
2018
34 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
689
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Bibi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bibi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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