Bâlbă
surname · Latin script
Bâlbă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- ESSpain1 in 981K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 2.3M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.7M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 981K (inferred from the name graph)
113 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Balba in RO Romania.
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)See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bâlbă 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 113 | 1 in 2.9M | 113 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 78 | 1 in 2.7M | 78 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 51 | 1 in 981K | 51 | — | — |
| RO Romania | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Balba | 7 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
113 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ionuț Bâlbăb. 1981RORomanian footballer
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Bâlbă mean, and where does it come from?
- See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bâlbă have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 113 people named Bâlbă, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bâlbă most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bâlbă is densest in Spain — about 1 in 981 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bâlbă?
- In the United States, the national register counted 113 people named Bâlbă in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A2lb%C4%83The 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, “Bâlbă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.