Shobha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘brilliance’, ‘beauty’
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Shobha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 230K
- USUnited States1 in 235K
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 Shobha 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 named Shova, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shoba in MY Malaysia, ZA South Africa, GY Guyana and Shova in BD Bangladesh.
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)Sanskrit: ‘brilliance’, ‘beauty’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shobha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Shova | 23 |
| US United States | — | 1,415 | 1 in 235K | 1.4K | Shobha | 202 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Shobha | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Shoba | 27 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Shoba | 33 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Shobha | 22 |
| GY Guyana | — | 64as Shoba | 1 in 12K | 64 | Shoba | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Shobha | 4 |
| IN India | #177 | — | — | 141 | Shobha | 196 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)- Shobha Senb. 1923INIndian actress
- Shobha Gurtub. 1925INIndian singer (1925-2004)
- Shobha Deepak Singhb. 1943INIndian cultural impresario
- Shobha Kapoorb. 1949INIndian producer
- Shobha Panditb. 1956INcricketer
- Shobha Naidub. 1956INIndian dancer
- Rofaiadb. 1957INnot in their usual nameBangladeshi volunteers
- Shobha Karandlajeb. 1966INIncumbent MP from Udupi-chikmagalur lok sabha constituency
- Shobha Nagi Reddyb. 1968INIndian politician
- Shobha Mohanb. 1969INIndian 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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Shobha mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘brilliance’, ‘beauty’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Shobha a male or female name?
- Shobha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shobha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Shova in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shobha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,415 people named Shobha in 2020, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
- How common is Shobha compared with other names?
- In India, Shobha is the 177th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shobhaThe 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, “Shobha” — the 177th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.