Sloboda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A kind of settlement, village, or suburb in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɫəˈboʊdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sloboda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 30Kas Слобода(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 323Kas Слобода
- SKSlovakia1 in 4K
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 Sloboda 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Слобода, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Слобода in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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)
freedom
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sloboda is read(measured from records)
Sloboda is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
A kind of settlement, village, or suburb in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sloboda in Ukrainian.
- Slovak13%
freedom
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sloboda in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sloboda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Слобода | 28 |
| SK Slovakia | #415 | 1,350 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | Sloboda | 58 |
| US United States | — | 605 | 1 in 550K | 605 | Sloboda | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 558 | 1 in 379K | 558 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Слобода | 94 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 172 | 1 in 62K | 173 | Sloboda | 23 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Слобода | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 36 | 1 in 117K | 36 | — | — |
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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Sloboda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, 1° libertas (protivno: ropstvo), 2° prvobitno: neovisnost od gospodara sela i vlastelina (feudalno značenje), 3° (u pl.) privilegije, 4° ono što je dopušteno
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, Dažādu apdzīvoto vietu nosaukums Krievijā 11.-17. gs., kuru iedzīvotāji uz laiku bija atbrīvoti no valsts nodokļiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Andrupenes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Andrupenes Sloboda" nosaukuma variants
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Andrupenes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Dagdas Sloboda" nosaukuma variants
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Daniel Slobodab. 1809SKbotanist (1809-1888)
- Ján Slobodab. 1913SKCzechoslovak writer
- Aleksandr Slobodab. 1920BYBelarusian politician
- Rudolf Slobodab. 1938SKSlovak poet, dramatic, prosaic and children books writer (1938-1995)
- Branislav Slobodab. 1943DEGerman mathematician and author
- John Slobodab. 1950GBBritish psychologist
- Wendy Slobodab. 1960CACanadian fossil hunter
- Radovan Slobodab. 1966SKSlovak politician
- Roman Slobodab. 1987SKSlovak soccer player
- Anton Slobodab. 1987SKSlovak soccer 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 605 | #36,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 590 | #40,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 568 | #36,999 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 558 | #15,421 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 173 | #6,000 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 172 | #9,846 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 36 | #16,356 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Sloboda come from?
- freedom Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sloboda?
- A machine transcription gives /sɫəˈboʊdə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sloboda mean?
- In English, A kind of settlement, village, or suburb in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
- In which country does Sloboda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Слобода in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sloboda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sloboda is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sloboda?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 1,350 people named Sloboda in 1995, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sloboda compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Sloboda is the 415th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sloboda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/slobodaThe 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, “Sloboda” — the 415th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.