Given name
Tiberius
“from the Tiber river”
Tiberius is a variant of Tiberio. One Italian interpretation is “from the Tiber river.”
Original GreekΤιβεριας
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tiberius is a variant of Tiberio. One Italian interpretation is “from the Tiber river.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tiberius is a variant of Tiberio. An origin associated with Tiberio is Italian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Tiberius appears in John 6:1, John 6:23, Luke 3:1 and 8 other passages.
- John 6:1
- John 6:23
- Luke 3:1
- Revelation 17:15
- Matthew 8:26
- Genesis 8:1
- Matthew 14:25
- Genesis 1:2
- Matthew 5:13
- Revelation 2:13
- Matthew 26:32
From biblical name research
Tiberius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,301
- 1,301 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 109 babies
- 2025
- 38
- #3,177 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −35%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 38 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,177 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 34.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 940 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tiberius’s family of names
In Latin usage, Tiberius has a later derivative in Tibor. In English usage, Tiberius has a conventional equivalent in the Asturian form TIBERIU. In English usage, Tiberius has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form Tibor.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tiberius has relatives in 47 languages.
32 related names in 47 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 32
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Tiborderivative · Slovak, Hungarian
- Tiburtiusequivalent
- ⲧⲓⲃⲉⲣⲓⲟⲥborrowing · Coptic
- tybꜣrysborrowing · egy
- TyberiuszPolish
- Tiberiuborrowing · Romanian, Asturian
- تیبیریسUrdu
- Тибе́рійUkrainian
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- TibberiuSicilian
- Тибе́рийRussian, Bulgarian
- TibérioPortuguese, frp
- تیبریوسPersian
- TibèriOccitan
- ТибериусMongolian
- ტიბერიუსიxmf, Georgian
- तिबेरिउसMarathi
- टाय्बीरियसMarathi
- ТиберијMacedonian
- TiberijusLithuanian
- TibeioLigurian
- TiberijsLatvian
- ໄທບີຣຽສlo
- 티베리우스Korean
- טיבריוסHebrew
- ΤιβέριοςAncient Greek, Greek
- TibeariusWest Frisian
- TibèreFrench
- Tibérofrp
- TiberiCatalan, Azerbaijani
- Тыбе́рыйBelarusian
- ՏիբերիոսArmenian
- تيبيريوسarz, Arabic
See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tiberius
- Tiberius IIIByzantine emperor from 698 to 705700–706
- Tiberius HemsterhuisDutch linguist (1685-1766)
- Tiberius Cornelis WinklerDutch paleontologist (1822–1897)
- Tiberius CavalloItalian physicist and natural philosopher (1749-1809)
- Tiberius PetasiusByzantine usurper700–730
- Tyberiy Korponayfootballer (1958-2021)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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