Ба

given name · Cyrillic script

Meaning: why!, well I never!, wow!

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ба is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 1.4M
  • SESweden1 in 96Kas Ba

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ба itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,148 named Ba, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Ukraine, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

БаCyrillic(measured from records)
BaLatin(measured from records)

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)

why!, well I never!, wow! (an exclamation of surprise, especially at an unexpected meeting)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ба 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.

Where Ба is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,148as Ba1 in 155K3.2K—12
SE Sweden106as Ba1 in 96K106——
RU Russia≈100 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Ба73
ES Spain54as Ba1 in 926K3.4K—3
UA Ukraine≈41 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Ба11
FI Finland36as Ba1 in 155K108—1
NL Netherlands31as Ba1 in 557K38—1
DK Denmark26as Ba1 in 226K32——

2,148 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ба is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Uzbek given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Uzbekistan

    Also written Ba, Bå, Bả, Bà, Bâ

  • Kazakh name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Bấ, Ba, Bá, Bã, Bâ

  • Persian name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran

    Also written Ba, Bâ, Bá, Bả, Bā

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ba

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Mariama Ba, b. 1929Ba Ge, b. 1954Amadou Ba, b. 1961Inday Ba, b. 1972Ibrahim Ba, b. 1973Demba Ba, b. 1985Mamadou Ba, b. 1985Abdoul Ba, b. 1994Lamine Ba, b. 1997
  • Mariama Bab. 1929SNSenegalese writer (1929–1981)
  • Ba Geb. 1954TWTaiwanese actor (1954-2022)
  • Amadou Bab. 1961SNPrime minister of Senegal (2022-2024)
  • Inday Bab. 1972SESwedish actress (1972–2005)
  • Ibrahim Bab. 1973SNFrench footballer (born 1973)
  • Demba Bab. 1985FRSenegalese-French footballer (born 1985)
  • Mamadou Bab. 1985SNSenegalese footballer
  • Abdoul Bab. 1994MRMauritanian and French association football player
  • Lamine Bab. 1997FRMauritanian and French association football player
  • Birane BaFRpensionnaire

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

Where does the name Ба come from?
why!, well I never!, wow! (an exclamation of surprise, especially at an unexpected meeting) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Ба mean?
Recorded meaning: why!, well I never!, wow!
Is Ба a male or female name?
Ба is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ба have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Ba, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ба?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,148 people named Ba in 2020, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Ба”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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