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Gibb

Boys' name

Pledge + bright, famous, through Gilbert

Gibb has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Gibb, 1990

1 in 790,000

Gibb over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gibb: meaning, origin, and history

Pledge + bright, famous, through Gilbert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gibb means

Gibb belongs to the name family reached through Gibb → Gilbert. Its meaning is “pledge + bright, famous”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Derived from a Middle English diminutive of the name Gilbert

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Gibb (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Gibb is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gilbert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Gibb between 1953 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1953; its best national rank was #3,566 in 1953.

How common is Gibb?

Gibb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 790,000
5 of 3,949,959 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
547,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gibb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 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 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gibb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gibbs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gibb was born before 1953 — so the typical Gibb is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Gibb 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (6)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,566
1953

Spellings of Gibb

Gibb is not the most common spelling — Gino is, with 36.7% against Gibb's 0.03%.

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.

Gibb by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,566
1953
Peak year
1953
6 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gibb

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

GibramGibGibertBibbGibbsGibrilGibranGibson

Sibling names for Gibb

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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