Šoba
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Šoba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country: 922 people, counted by INE Uruguay. Šoba is also written Соба in Cyrillic.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 9.2K
- ESSpain1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
922 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šoba in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Soba in SI Slovenia.
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)»1° odaja, klijet, komora, konoba, Zimmer, 2° (prvobitno) soba koja se loži iz peći, 3° (Kosmet) sobna peć, 4° klijet gdje se zimi loži i sklanja cvijeće da ne promrzne, 5° zimska bašča (kao u turskom)«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šoba is found
(measured from records)Šoba 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.
922 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Šoba is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In krl, dress
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Andrej ŠobaSIresearcher
- Stojan ŠobaSIresearcher
- Erika ŠobaSIresearcher
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šoba?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 922 people named Šoba, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Argentina, Slovenia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šoba most common?
- Šoba is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Šoba?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 922 people named Šoba, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šoba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1obaThe 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, “Šoba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.