Bâbă

surname · Latin script

Bâbă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1618. Contraction of Barbara.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 46K
  • ESSpain1 in 58K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

1,804 people

Sources
226 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Babá in BR Brazil.

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)

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1618. Contraction of Barbara.

Sources 9

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The African book of names
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bâbă 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 Bâbă is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,8041 in 735K1.8K—25
US United States1,7271 in 193K2K—80
PL Poland1,5321 in 25K802—1
ES Spain8691 in 58K869—42
BR Brazil8081 in 262K808Babá64
BE Belgium1201 in 98K241—21
NO Norway1181 in 46K118—3
DK Denmark631 in 93K63—1

1,804 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)

Bâbă is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Baba, বাবা, බබා, Babaa, Bābā

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bâbă under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bâbă mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1618. Contraction of Barbara. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The African book of names and 7 other sources.
In which country does Bâbă have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Bâbă, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bâbă most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bâbă is densest in Poland — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bâbă?
In India, the national register counted 1,804 people named Bâbă, about 1 in 735 thousand residents.

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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, “Bâbă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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