بد
surname · Arabic script
Meaning, in Persian: bad; not good
بد is a surname written in the Arabic script, most frequently recorded in Iran.
- EGEgypt
- IRIran
- YEYemen
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)escape, means of avoiding something
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How بد is read
(measured from records)بد is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Persian82%
bad; not good
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic17%
escape, means of avoiding something
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
to want
as a wordrecorded as apckaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)بد counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | — | بد | 11 |
| EG Egypt | — | بد | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | بد | 4 |
| YE Yemen | — | بد | 4 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | بد | 5 |
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.
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)بد is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In klj, Arabic spelling of bəd (“evil”)
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)- Bud Jamisonb. 1894USnot in their usual nameActor (1894-1944)
- Bud Collyerb. 1908USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1908–1969)
- Charles Tingwellb. 1923AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actor (1923–2009)
- Bud Powellb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz pianist and composer (1924–1966)
- Bud Yorkinb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican producer, director, and screenwriter (1926–2015)
- Bud Greenspanb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director, writer, and producer (1926–2010)
- Bud Shankb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz saxophonist and flautist (1926–2009)
- Bud Brownb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1927-2022)
- Bud Grantb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player and head coach (1927–2023)
- Bud S. Smithb. 1935USnot in their usual nameFilm Editor (1935–2024)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name بد come from?
- escape, means of avoiding something Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name بد mean?
- In Persian, bad; not good
- In which country does بد have the most bearers?
- بد is most frequently recorded in Iran, where it is most often spelled بد.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%A8%D8%AFThe 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, “بد”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.