Loba

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular past historic of lober

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ləʊbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Loba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 37K
  • GAGabon≈1 in 72K

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.

Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,100 people, est.

Sources
111 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person singular past historic of lober

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Loba 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.

Where Loba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CI Côte d’Ivoire≈6,100 est.≈1 in 4.5K2KLoba13
PL Poland1,0421 in 37K525—1
PH Philippines≈720 est.≈1 in 153K—Loba4
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈560 est.≈1 in 182K—Loba4
CM Cameroon≈230 est.≈1 in 122K—Loba2
GA Gabon≈31 est.≈1 in 72K3—3

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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Loba is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Лоба

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Germany, Nigeria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Loeba, Löba

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Lóba

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Loba 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.

  • In ss, that over there, yonder; class 14 remote demonstrative.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, straw of Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, female equivalent of lobo, a she-wolf

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In klw, colors and markings on animal fur

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, synonym of otsakeero

    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)

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)

FormalDear Ms Loba,
InformalHi Loba,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Loba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—2K#281
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026525—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—525#6,227
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026517—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—517#6,188
GA GabonMinistere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative)20253#92

Reference works 5

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 Loba mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular past historic of lober Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Loba?
A machine transcription gives /ləʊbə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Loba have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Loba in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loba.
How common is the name Loba?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,042 people named Loba in 2026, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

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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, “Loba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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