Shobha

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘brilliance’, ‘beauty’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shobha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 235K(measured from records)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 48Kas Shoba
  • BHBahrain≈1 in 42K

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nepal (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,100 named Shova, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
202 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

Bahrain, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ShobhaLatin(measured from records)
שובהHebrew(measured from records)
โชบาThai(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Shoba in MY Malaysia, GY Guyana and Shova in BD Bangladesh, NP Nepal.

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’.

Sources 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.

Where Shobha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal—≈8,100 est.≈1 in 3.8K1Shova44
BD Bangladesh—≈6,000 est.≈1 in 27K—Shova23
US United States—1,4151 in 235K1.4KShobha202
ID Indonesia—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 264K—Shobha7
MY Malaysia—≈680 est.≈1 in 48K—Shoba27
AE United Arab Emirates—≈220 est.≈1 in 46K—Shobha22
GY Guyana—64as Shoba1 in 12K64Shoba2
BH Bahrain—≈36 est.≈1 in 42K—Shobha4
IN India#177——141Shobha196

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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shobha is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Shubha, Шобха

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written சோபா, Shobhaa

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Shobha Sen, b. 1923Shobha Gurtu, b. 1925Shobha Deepak Singh, b. 1943Shobha Kapoor, b. 1949Shobha Pandit, b. 1956Shobha Naidu, b. 1956Rofaiad, b. 1957Shobha Karandlaje, b. 1966Shobha Nagi Reddy, b. 1968Shobha Mohan, b. 1969

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Shobha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—29K#208
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198512K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198712K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198312K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198412K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199212K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198212K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199311K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198111K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199110K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198910K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19869.9K—

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 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.
In which country does Shobha have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Shova in Nepal, 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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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 2026-10-10.

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