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
Average Shoba Salary in
United States
$36,208 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Shoba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shoba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shoba (Bengali: শোভা, Georgian: შობა, Hindi: शोबा, Marathi: शोभा, Russian: Шоба, Tibetan: ཤོ་བཱ་) has its highest incidence in South Africa. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Shoba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 34,886th most widely held last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 480,170 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 76 percent of Shoba reside; 76 percent reside in Southern Africa and 76 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Shoba is also the 25,981st most widely held first name internationally It is held by 32,849 people.
The last name Shoba is most commonly occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 11,240 people, or 1 in 4,820. In South Africa Shoba is most common in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 58 percent reside, Gauteng, where 16 percent reside and Mpumalanga, where 12 percent reside. Not including South Africa Shoba exists in 39 countries. It is also common in India, where 17 percent reside and Bangladesh, where 2 percent reside.
Shoba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name 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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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- 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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