Bábú
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bábú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From several Indian languages like Malayalam (ബാബു), Telugu (బాబు), Hindi बाबू (bābū).
- BHBahrain≈1 in 959(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.2K
- QAQatar≈1 in 1.7K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #965 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 959 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Babu in US United States, PK Pakistan, KW Kuwait and 6 more.
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)
From several Indian languages like Malayalam (ബാബു), Telugu (బాబు), Hindi बाबू (bābū).
Sources 6
- African Names
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bábú 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #234 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Babu | 100 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1 | Babu | 29 |
| PK Pakistan | #514 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Babu | 26 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #238 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Babu | 43 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Babu | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | #99 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Babu | 31 |
| BH Bahrain | #31 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 959 | — | Babu | 27 |
| QA Qatar | #123 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Babu | 38 |
| US United States | — | 1,100 | 1 in 302K | 13K | Babu | 273 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bábú mean, and where does it come from?
- From several Indian languages like Malayalam (ബാബു), Telugu (బాబు), Hindi बाबू (bābū). Recorded by African Names and The African book of names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Bábú have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Bábú in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babu.
- How common is the name Bábú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,100 people named Bábú in 2020, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
- How common is Bábú compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Bábú is the 234th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A1b%C3%BAThe 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, “Bábú” — the 234th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.