Chudoba
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: livestock
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃudoʊbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chudoba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 39K
- PLPoland1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
949 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
livestock
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Chudoba is read(measured from records)
Chudoba is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chudoba in English.
- Polish11%
livestock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chudoba in German.
- Spanish8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chudoba in Spanish.
- Czech7.1%
poverty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chudoba 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.
949 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Chudoba 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.
- žr. Chūdaba
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In zlw-opl, leanness, skinniness
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)
- Karel Chudobab. 1848CZCzech doctor, writer and translator
- František Chudobab. 1878CZCzech essayist, translator, writer and university educator (1878-1941)
- Karl Franz Johann Chudobab. 1898DEGerman mineralogist (1898–1976)
- Bohdan Chudobab. 1909CZCzech archivist, historian, publicist, educator and university educator (1909-1982)
- Andrej Chudobab. 1927SKSlovak writer
- Bożena Chudoba-Drozdowskab. 1939PLPolish animal scientist
- Jiří Chudobab. 1969CZresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-6425-2579
- Martin Chudobab. 1969CZCzech member of Czech Parliament (1992–1996) and member of Czech National Council
- Anna Chudobab. 1978PLPolish model
- Jadwiga ChudobaPolish mining engineer
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 846 | #1,345 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 846 | #1,643 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 845 | #1,662 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 491 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 491 | #6,633 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 458 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 458 | #6,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 259 | #74,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 139 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #63,366 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Chudoba mean, and where does it come from?
- livestock Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chudoba?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃudoʊbə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chudoba have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 949 people named Chudoba, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chudoba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chudoba is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chudoba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 949 people named Chudoba in 2026, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chudoba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chudobaThe 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, “Chudoba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.