Subba
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səbbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Subba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Nepali सुब्बा (subbā).
- INIndia1 in 52K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 555K
- NPNepal≈1 in 1K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Borrowed from Nepali सुब्बा (subbā).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Subba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 4 | — | 1 |
| IN India | #941 | 25,361 | 1 in 52K | 25K | Subba | 145 |
| US United States | — | 599 | 1 in 555K | 3.5K | Subba | 160 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Subba | 14 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 678K | — | Subba | 10 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Subba | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | — | 8 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Subba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, bitch (disagreeable woman)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A surname from Nepali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Letterio Subbab. 1787ITItalian sculptor (1787-1868)
- Suraj Subbab. 1970NPNepalese writer
- Abhaya Subbab. 1979NPFamous rock musician of Nepal
- Malvika Subbab. 1981NPMiss Nepal 2002, actress and Television personality
- Uday SubbaNPFilm Director
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 25K | #511 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #6 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 599 | #37,229 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #12,113 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 4 | #26 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Subba mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Nepali सुब्बा (subbā). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Subba?
- A machine transcription gives /səbbə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Subba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Subba in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Subba?
- In India, the national register counted 25,361 people named Subba, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
- How common is Subba compared with other names?
- In India, Subba is the 941st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/subbaThe 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, “Subba” — the 941st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.