Shova
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃoʊvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shova is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 48Kas Shoba(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 235Kas Shobha
- NPNepal≈1 in 3.8K
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 Shova 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shobha in IN India, US United States, AE United Arab Emirates and 3 more and Shoba in MY Malaysia, GY Guyana.
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)
Shova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 1 | Shova | 44 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Shova | 23 |
| US United States | — | 1,415as Shobha | 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 |
| 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 |
| DK Denmark | — | 20 | 1 in 293K | 20 | Shobha | 6 |
| 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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Shova 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 Albanian, first-person singular aorist of shuaj
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)
- Shova Gauchanb. 1993NPbadminton player
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 202 | #37,148 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #5,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #37,148 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #298 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
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 Shova?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃoʊvə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shova a male or female name?
- Shova 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 Shova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Shova in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shova.
- How common is the name Shova?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 20 people named Shova, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
- How common is Shova compared with other names?
- In India, Shova is the 177th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shovaThe 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, “Shova” — the 177th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.