Shoba Surname
Approximately 15,177 people bear this surname
Shoba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 11,240 | 1:4,820 | 615 |
| India | 2,611 | 1:293,782 | 16,598 |
| Bangladesh | 360 | 1:442,658 | 11,259 |
| Indonesia | 305 | 1:433,604 | 36,324 |
| Swaziland | 177 | 1:7,334 | 424 |
| Belarus | 139 | 1:68,353 | 11,211 |
| Lesotho | 62 | 1:32,783 | 6,032 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Russia | 34 | 1:4,238,913 | 201,756 |
| Nigeria | 29 | 1:6,108,371 | 148,179 |
| Singapore | 26 | 1:211,835 | 10,313 |
| England | 23 | 1:2,422,524 | 89,093 |
| United States | 20 | 1:18,122,947 | 588,089 |
| Uganda | 20 | 1:1,951,964 | 63,898 |
| Malaysia | 16 | 1:1,843,389 | 74,511 |
| United Arab Emirates | 11 | 1:832,934 | 27,512 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Ukraine | 8 | 1:5,690,337 | 241,823 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Lebanon | 5 | 1:1,127,417 | 17,983 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 1:5,202,140 | 12,146 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
Shoba (32,849) may also be a first name.
Shoba Demographics
Shoba Religious Adherence
in Belarus
Religious Adherence
in Belarus
Shoba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shoba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shoba (Bengali: শোভা, Georgian: შობა, Hindi: शोबा, Marathi: शोभा, Russian: Шоба, Tibetan: ཤོ་བཱ་) is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Shoba click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shoba? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 34,886th most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 480,170 people. Shoba occurs predominantly in Africa, where 76 percent of Shoba live; 76 percent live in Southern Africa and 76 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Shoba is also the 25,981st most frequently held first name on earth It is held by 32,849 people.
The last name is most numerous in South Africa, where it is borne by 11,240 people, or 1 in 4,820. In South Africa Shoba is mostly concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 58 percent are found, Gauteng, where 16 percent are found and Mpumalanga, where 12 percent are found. Excluding South Africa this surname is found in 39 countries. It also occurs in India, where 17 percent are found and Bangladesh, where 2 percent are found.
Shoba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Shoba surname is principally Orthodox (100%) in Belarus, Muslim (100%) in Kenya and Jewish (100%) in Lebanon.
The amount Shoba earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 42.23% less than the national average, earning R 137,280 per year and in United States they earn 16.09% less than the national average, earning $36,208 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shoba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shoba in the Georgian language | ||
| შობა | shoba | - |
| Shoba in the Hindi language | ||
| शोबा | soba | 75 |
| शोभा | sobha | 22.16 |
| सोभा | sobha | 1.14 |
| शॊबा | soba | 0.57 |
| शॉबा | soba | 0.57 |
| Shoba in the Marathi language | ||
| शोभा | sobha | 69.95 |
| शोबा | soba | 29.7 |
| सोभा | sobha | 0.18 |
| शोभ | sobha | 0.18 |
| Shoba in the Bengali language | ||
| শোভা | sobha | 50 |
| শোবা | soba | 50 |
| Shoba in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཤོ་བཱ་ | shoba | 28.57 |
| སོ་བཱ་ | soba | 21.43 |
| ཤོ་བ་ | showa | 21.43 |
| སོ་བ་ | sowa | 14.29 |
| སཱོ་བ་ | sawa | 7.14 |
| སའུ་བཱ་ | sa'uba | 7.14 |
| Shoba in the Russian language | ||
| Шоба | soba | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Shoba
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