At a Glance
- Meaning
- Likely 'island of the god Bes' in Phoenician, later reshaped in Arabic to sound like 'dry land'
- Origin
- Phoenician (via Arabic and Catalan)
- Gender
- Unisex
- Pronunciation
- ee-BEE-zə
Ibiza is a Phoenician (via Arabic and Catalan) unisex name meaning “likely 'island of the god Bes' in Phoenician, later reshaped in Arabic to sound like 'dry land'”. It appears in 2 of our baby name lists.
Meaning & Origin of Ibiza
Meaning: Likely 'island of the god Bes' in Phoenician, later reshaped in Arabic to sound like 'dry land'.
Origin: Phoenician (via Arabic and Catalan).
A common claim: Island of pines Actually: 'Island of pines' isn't Ibiza's etymology — that's actually the ancient Greek name for the Ibiza–Formentera group, 'Pityoussai' ('pine islands'), a separate, unrelated exonym from the Phoenician root that produced 'Ibiza'.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Ibiza
ee-BEE-zəIPA /ɪˈbiːzə/
Popularity of Ibiza
Ibiza doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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