The Ribas surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,082 people carried this name — #23,485 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 270,300 people counted. That is up 25% from 863 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Ribas surname
Borrowed from Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish Ribas.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ribas» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,211 people named Ribas live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 339 people named Ribas.
141 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 34 départements, most often Pyrénées-Orientales.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
49 people named Ribas live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Ribas,
with a public archive behind them.
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José de Ribas 1751–1800 · military personnel -
José de Ribas 1751–1800 · military personnel
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Bonaventura Ribas i Quintana 1830–1903 · archivist -
José Ribas Seva d. 1983 · politician
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Juan Ribas Carrasquilla 1612–1687 · writer
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Francisco Javier de Carrión y Ribas 1718–1779 · diplomat
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ribas.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Ribas is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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