Šova
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. Šovys (žr.). Galbūt iŠ liet (Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Šova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Šova is also written Сова in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 8.4K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 9.8K
- SKSlovakia1 in 31K
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 Šova itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
20,402 named Sowa, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šova in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Сова in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, FI Finland and Sova 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)Plg. Šovys (žr.). Galbūt iŠ liet. šova „išpuvusi medyje vieta, drevė, išduoba; skląstis, velkė“ (LKŽK), šovotis „skilti, skeldėti“ (ten pat), Šauti, -na, šovė „paleisti kulką iš Šaunamojo ginklo; su trenksmu sprogti, išlėkti; smarkiai eiti, bėgti, skristi; sklęsti, stumti“ (DLKŽ) ar pan. šovelskas ŠOVELSKAS Kpč. Plg. Sovetskas (žr.). 970
Cited for this meaning 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šova is found
(measured from records)Šova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 20,402as Sowa | 1 in 1.9K | 10K | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | #824 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Сова | 43 |
| US United States | — | 2,729as Sowa | 1 in 122K | 2.8K | Sova | 262 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Сова | 122 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,278 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 567 | 1 in 9.8K | 567 | Сова | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 174 | 1 in 31K | 174 | — | 2 |
20,402 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Šova 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 Latvian, Plaisa, rēta; šopa
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šova mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. Šovys (žr.). Galbūt iŠ liet.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šova?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Sowa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, United States, Russia and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šova most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šova is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 8.4 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šova?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,278 people named Šova, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Šova compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Šova is the 824th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1ovaThe 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, “Šova” — ranked 139th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.