Çoba
surname · Latin script
Çoba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Galician and Spanish Coba.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 55K
- ESSpain1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
719 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Coba in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Galician and Spanish Coba.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Çoba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 719 | 1 in 70K | 719 | — | — |
| US United States | 529 | 1 in 629K | 600 | Coba | 5 |
| AL Albania | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Çoba | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 93 | 1 in 55K | 93 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 92 | 1 in 494K | 92 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
719 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shaqe Çobab. 1875ALAlbanian Feminist
- Ernesto Çobab. 1913ALAlbanian Catholic archbishop (1913–1980)
- Zef Çobab. 1951ALAlbanian conductor/composer
- Mehdi Çobab. 2000ALAlbanian footballer
- Selim ÇobaAlbanian religious scholar
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Çoba mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Galician and Spanish Coba. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Çoba have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 719 people named Çoba, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Çoba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 719 people named Çoba, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7obaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çoba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.