Koba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊbɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.
- TGTogo≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 67K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 68K
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 Koba 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.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
11,429 named კობა
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled კობა in GE Georgia.
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)
1. from a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob). 2. nickname from Slavic koba ‘raven’. 3. Japanese: ‘small place’, found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #815 | 11,429as კობა | 1 in 350 | 11K | კობა | 70 |
| PL Poland | — | 575 | 1 in 67K | 794 | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 274 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 225as Coba | 1 in 77K | 225 | — | 4 |
| TG Togo | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | — | — |
11,429 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Koba 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.
Kitchen.
as a nameThe African book of names
In English, Alternative form of kob (kind of antelope)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-ryu-pro, Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bgt, hermit crab
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bnt-pro, bark; husk
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Władysław Kobab. 1914PLPolish resistance fighter
- Stanisław Kobab. 1928PLPolish physician and politician
- Takeshi Kobab. 1936JPBaseball player and manager
- Hiroyuki Kobab. 1962JPJapanese automotive engineer
- Jan Kobab. 1962CZcyclist
- Serhii Kobab. 1984UAUkrainian politician
- Sarah Kobab. 1984CHSwiss cyclist
- Keisuke KobaJPresearcher
- Satoshi KobaJPresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-0764-7053
- Rena KobaJPJapanese actress
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 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 794 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 794 | #4,003 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 787 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 787 | #3,951 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 274 | #1,636 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Koba come from?
- 1. from a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob). 2. nickname from Slavic koba ‘raven’. 3. Japanese: ‘small place’, found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Koba?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊbɑ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What does the name Koba mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob).
- What are other forms of the name Koba?
- In the etymology graph, Jacobo, Jakab and Kobus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Koba have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named კობა, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 575 people named Koba in 2026, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Koba compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Koba is the 815th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Koba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kobaThe 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, “Koba” — the 815th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.