Čorba

surname · Latin script

Meaning: chowder

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

Čorba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 39K(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 62K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 116K

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 Čorba 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)

656 named Chorba, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
15 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ČorbaLatin(measured from records)
ЧорбаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Corba in US United States.

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)

chowder

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Čorba 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 Čorba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States656as Chorba1 in 507K671Corba3
NL Netherlands1491 in 116K149——
RS Serbia≈110 est.≈1 in 62K—Čorba12
HR Croatia1091 in 39K109Čorba15
AR Argentina1031 in 442K103——
FI Finland111 in 507K11——

656 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling chorba. 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 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Čorba is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Corba

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Corba, Corbà, Çorba

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Netherlands, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Corba, Çorba, Corbă, Corbã, Cörbä

  • Hindi name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Corba, Çorba

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Corba

  • Spanish surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Colombia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

    Also written Corba, Çorba, Cörbä, Corbã

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Corba

1 further group 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Čorba 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 Serbo-Croatian, »juha, župa, supa«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Latvian, Tunisijā iecienīta zupa ar makaroniem, parasti no cāļa buljona

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, tāds, kas ir sliktas kvalitātes, sēnalains (par maizi)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, tas, kas ir irdens, čaugans, pussatrunējis

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Veci apavi (piemēram, pastalas)

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Čorba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021109#7,367
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021100—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Čorba mean, and where does it come from?
chowder Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Čorba have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 656 people named Chorba, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čorba most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čorba is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čorba?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 149 people named Čorba in 2007, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.

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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, “Čorba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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