Jobab
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Jobab is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'shouter' or 'one who cries out' (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: INEC, 2022
Jobab is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Jobab is also written জবাব in Bengali.
- INIndia≈1 in 41Mfew recordsas জবাব(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jobab itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41M (inferred from the name graph)
≈36 named জবাব, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
India, est., as জবাব
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jobab in other scripts: Latin and Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jabab in IN India.
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)Jobab is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'shouter' or 'one who cries out'. He was a son of Shaharaim from the tribe of Benjamin. It is a rare name, associated with a genealogical list in the Old Testament.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jobab 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.
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Jobab is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name Jobab is derived from the Hebrew verb 'yabab' (יבב), and is generally understood to mean "to cry out shrilly," "howler," or "shouter".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Jobab is believed to derive from a Hebrew root word meaning "to cry out" or "howler".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Derived from a Hebrew root meaning 'to cry out', 'to wail', or 'to shrill'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
As a member of the Canaanite coalition opposing Israel, Jobab represents the resistance of local pagan powers to the divine mandate given to Joshua for the conquest of the Promised Land.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
He who calls shrilly; Howler
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Jobab come from?
- Jobab is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'shouter' or 'one who cries out'. He was a son of Shaharaim from the tribe of Benjamin. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Jobab a male or female name?
- Jobab is a male 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.
- What does the name Jobab mean?
- Recorded meaning: Jobab is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'shouter' or 'one who cries out'.
- In which country does Jobab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 people named জবাব in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jobab?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 people in India have জবাব as their first given name, about 1 in 41 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jobabThe 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, “Jobab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.