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)

1. A surname from Hungarian.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Chorba is the 34495^th 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.

Anagrams

• broach, Orbach, Broach, brocha