Joba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Perseguida
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: datos.gob.ar, 1986
/xoβa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joba is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 52K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 151K
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 Joba 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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 Jaba in PE Peru.
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)Perseguida
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Joba | 22 |
| PE Peru | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Jaba | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Joba | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 639K | 5 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 264as Jaba | 1 in 145K | 264 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 267K | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); This essay discusses Africanisms found in African American names in the United States by Joseph E. Holloway, Ph.D.; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015). 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)Joba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, twaddle, pointless and/or nonsense talk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sc, a pair
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)- Joba van den Berg-Jansenb. 1958NLDutch former politician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #17,515 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1986 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1986 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Joba mean, and where does it come from?
- Perseguida Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Joba?
- A machine transcription gives /xoβa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Joba a male or female name?
- Joba is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Joba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Joba in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joba.
- How common is the name Joba?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 4 people named Joba, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Joba?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jobaThe 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, “Joba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.