SoBo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of sobar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səboʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
SoBo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 22K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
first-person singular present indicative of sobar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
SoBo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | SoBo | 22 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | SoBo | 7 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | SoBo | 4 |
| GH Ghana | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | SoBo | 7 |
| US United States | 172 | 1 in 1.9M | 197 | SoBo | 146 |
| HR Croatia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 469K | 10 | SoBo | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
SoBo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In msk, to give some food to his fellow man while eating
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In msk, temper (as of a blade); to temper a blade
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In msk, to bubble (as boiling water)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of そぼ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zmf, exchange
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 172 | #104,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152 | #108,153 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 10 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 SoBo mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of sobar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce SoBo?
- A machine transcription gives /səboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does SoBo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named SoBo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled SoBo.
- How common is the name SoBo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 172 people named SoBo in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million 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/soboThe 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, “SoBo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.