Shov
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shov is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 130Kas Show(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 499Kas Sho
- ESSpain1 in 781Kas Sow
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 Shov 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)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
667 named Sho, 2020
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est., as Show
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sho in ES Spain, US United States, BD Bangladesh, Sow in MY Malaysia and Show in PK Pakistan.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shov 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 | 667as Sho | 1 in 499K | 3.2K | Sho | 32 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Sow | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Show | 9 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sho | 9 |
| ES Spain | 64as Sow | 1 in 781K | 3.7K | Sho | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 11as Sho | 1 in 928K | 109 | — | — |
667 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Shov is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In rom, Anglicized form of śov (“six”)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shov a male or female name?
- Shov is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Shov have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 667 people named Sho, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 667 people named Sho in 2020, about 1 in 499 thousand 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/shovThe 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, “Shov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.