Băbău

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Băbău is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 459K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 902K
  • ESSpain1 in 2.8M

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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈46 people, est.

Record sources
21 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 459K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Babău 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Băbău 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 Băbău is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania≈46 est.≈1 in 459K—Babău21
ES Spain181 in 2.8M18—4
BE Belgium131 in 902K13—3
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Băbău is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Babau, Babău

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Babau

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)
  • Ioan BăbăuRORomanian politician from Șofronea, Arad County

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)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Băbău
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#168,873

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

In which country does Băbău have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 people named Băbău in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babău.
How common is the name Băbău?
In Spain, the national register counted 18 people named Băbău, about 1 in 2.8 million 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, “Băbău”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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