Coba
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Coba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as smarminess; cajolery.
- PEPeru≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 25K
- ESSpain1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A small town in Mexico, formerly a Mayan city.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Coba is read(measured from records)
Coba is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish84%
smarminess; cajolery
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.7%
A small town in Mexico, formerly a Mayan city.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ancient Mayan city, Mexico
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
element
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Coba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Coba | 49 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Coba | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 719 | 1 in 70K | 719 | Coba | 85 |
| US United States | — | 529 | 1 in 629K | 600 | Coba | 144 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Coba | 13 |
| PA Panama | #488 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 4 | Coba | 22 |
| CR Costa Rica | #843 | 93 | 1 in 55K | 93 | Coba | 8 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Coba 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 mak, if (supposing that)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, to try
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)
- Segundo René Coba Galarzab. 1957ECBishop of Ibarra
- Yoandry Hernándezb. 1980CUnot in their usual nameCuban weightlifter
- Martín Cobab. 1981PEassociation football player
- Emily Cedeñob. 2003PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 719 | #5,943 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 719 | #5,942 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 600 | #39,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 529 | #41,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 475 | #42,912 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 93 | #1,533 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 4 | #521 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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
- Where does the name Coba come from?
- A small town in Mexico, formerly a Mayan city. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Coba mean?
- In Spanish, smarminess; cajolery
- What are other forms of the name Coba?
- In the etymology graph, Jacquette and Giacoma are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Coba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Coba in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coba.
- How common is the name Coba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 719 people named Coba, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Coba compared with other names?
- In Panama, Coba is the 488th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cobaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Coba” — the 488th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.