Chorba
English
Etymology
Altered spelling of Hungarian Csorba, from csorba (“gap-toothed”).
Also Americanized from Slovak and Serbo-Croatian Čorba, from the noun čorba (“soup, chowder”).
Proper noun
Chorba (plural Chorbas)
- A surname from Hungarian.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Chorba is the 34495th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 656 individuals. Chorba is most common among White (97.26%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Chorba”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 331.