Shebesta
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛbɛstə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shebesta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 6.6Mas Шебеста
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 Shebesta 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
208 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Шебеста in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shebesta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 208 | 1 in 1.6M | 208 | — | 4 |
| RU Russia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | — | Шебеста | 36 |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Шебеста | 1 |
208 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Franz Anton Sebastinib. 1725CZnot in their usual namepainter (c.1725-1789)
- Paul Schebestab. 1887DEnot in their usual nameGerman priest (1887–1968)
- Jakub Šebestab. 1888CZnot in their usual nameCzech literature historian and translator
- Štefan Šebestab. 1912SKnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak minister of transport of the Slovakia, minister of construction and technic of the Slovakia, member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak national parliament and slovak nation politician (1912-1994)
- Giuseppe Šebestab. 1919ITnot in their usual nameItalian writer, artist, ethnographer and scientific documentary maker
- Karel Šebestab. 1921CZnot in their usual nameCzech actor
- Milan Sebestab. 1945CZnot in their usual nameCzech film director
- Jakub Šebestab. 1948CZnot in their usual nameCzech minister of agriculture of the CR and minister of environment of the CR
- Ivan Sebestab. 1959CZnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0917-7967
- Martin ŠebestaSKnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7830-5064
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 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 208 | #89,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 201 | #86,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Shebesta?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛbɛstə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shebesta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 208 people named Shebesta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shebesta most common?
- Shebesta is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shebesta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 208 people named Shebesta in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shebestaThe 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, “Shebesta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.