Šota
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Šota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 60K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 67K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šota itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
744 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shota 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šota 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.
744 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Shota Rustavelib. 1172GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian poet
- Shota Kavlashvilib. 1926GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian architect and historic preservationist
- Shota Laperadzeb. 1930GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian film director (1930-1995)
- Shota Chochishvilib. 1950GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian professional wrestler and judoka (1950–2009)
- Shota Khabarelib. 1958GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian judoka
- Shota Iatashvilib. 1966GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian poet, prose writer, translator, and art critic (1966-)
- Shota Arveladzeb. 1973GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian association football player and manager (born 1973)
- Shota Gamisoniyab. 1981RUnot in their usual namefilm director
- Shota Grigalashvilib. 1986GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian footballer
- Shota Mishvelidzeb. 1994GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian weightlifter
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 70 | #10,489 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 66 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Šota have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 744 people named Šota, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Šota most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šota is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 60 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šota?
- In Spain, the national register counted 744 people named Šota, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šota?
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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%A1otaThe 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, “Šota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.