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Tibor

Boys' name

Tiber river + relative adjective marker, through Tiberius

Tibor has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1960, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Tibor, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tibor: meaning, origin, and history

Tiber river + relative adjective marker, through Tiberius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tibor means

Tibor belongs to the name family reached through Tibor → Tiberius. Its meaning is “Tiber river + relative adjective marker”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tibor is used in Cebuano, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tiburcio and Tiberius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Tibor is pronounced [ˈcɪbor].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 215 boys were recorded with the name Tibor between 1956 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,030 in 1960.

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 Tibor?

Tibor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tibor 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tibor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tibors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tibor was born before 1966 — so the typical Tibor is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
52.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
215
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 52.1% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Tibor 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 1960 (17)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,030
1960

Spellings of Tibor

Tibor is not the most common spelling — Tylor is, with 26.7% against Tibor's 0.71%.

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 Tibor is used

Across 1910–2025, Tibor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,563,045 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tibor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tibor around the world

Where Tibor 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
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1926–2015
    #4,897
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1997–1998
    #1,953
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1950–1988
    #476
    in 1988

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

Tibor 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
#2,030
1960
Peak year
1960
17 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
215
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tibor

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

ArborTaborHarborGaborNaborTiburcioTiberiusTreborTibbyWilborTiberiasTayborDalibor

Sibling names for Tibor

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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