Choban
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃoʊbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Choban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 28Kas Чобан(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 153Kas Чобан
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 69K
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 Choban 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 named Чобан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Чобан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BG Bulgaria and Coban in BE Belgium.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Choban 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Чобан | 31 |
| RU Russia | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Чобан | 103 |
| NL Netherlands | 414as Çoban | 1 in 42K | 414 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 362as Coban | 1 in 32K | 397 | Coban | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 216as Coban | 1 in 27K | 216 | — | — |
| US United States | 204 | 1 in 1.6M | 281 | Choban | 18 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Чобан | 24 |
| GD Grenada | 6as Coban | 1 in 19K | 6 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 213 | #92,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 204 | #90,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 187 | #91,404 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Choban?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃoʊbən/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Choban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Чобан in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Choban?
- In the United States, the national register counted 204 people named Choban in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Choban?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chobanThe 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, “Choban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.