Tibor
Fewer than 160 men in Poland carry it, so meeting one stays with you. The name points back to Tibur, the old name for Tivoli near Rome.
Tibor Pronunciation
Tibor is pronounced TEE-bor (/ˈtibɔr/).
What Tibor means
Where Tibor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tibor comes from the Latin Tiburtius, a name that once marked a person from Tibur, the ancient hill town now called Tivoli near Rome. The short meaning stays literal: from Tibur, from Tivoli. Saint Tiburtius, a Roman martyr venerated since late antiquity, carried the form into the church calendar, and his feast falls on 14 April.
Slavic speakers trimmed the long Latin Tiburtius down to Tibor, two clean syllables that hold their ground. The place-name Tibur also gave Latin its adjective tiburtinus, still heard in travertine, the tibur stone quarried near the town. Say it once and it is done.
On a Polish class register the name reads plainly, a boy among boys, with no diminutive listed beside it. What it still reports is a place: Tibur, the town Romans knew before it became Tivoli.
How many people are named Tibor
1 in 134253 men in Poland is named Tibor. 159 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2561 among male names.
Tibor as a middle name
Tibor is a first name for 159 men in Poland and a middle name for another 36, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1365th, between Sherif (36) and Tomek (36).
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#1363 Shane36
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#1364 Sherif36
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#1365 Tibor36
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#1366 Tomek36
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#1367 Trevor36