Bălă
surname · Latin script
Bălă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Definite form of Balë, from balë (“white spot”). See balë for more.
- PLPoland1 in 19K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 26K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 30K
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)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
51,870 people
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bala in IN India, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)
Definite form of Balë, from balë (“white spot”). See balë for more.
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The African book of names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bălă 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 51,870 | 1 in 26K | 52K | Bala | 16 |
| PL Poland | 2,018 | 1 in 19K | 1.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,968 | 1 in 169K | 2.7K | Bala | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 649 | 1 in 326K | 649 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 321 | 1 in 156K | 321 | Bala | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 276 | 1 in 30K | 276 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 173 | 1 in 59K | 173 | Bala | 6 |
| NO Norway | 144 | 1 in 38K | 144 | — | 2 |
51,870 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Dan BălăRORomanian politician from Redea, Olt 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)
Attested in 1 sources 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 Bălă mean, and where does it come from?
- Definite form of Balë, from balë (“white spot”). See balë for more. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The African book of names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Bălă have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Bălă, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bala.
- Where is Bălă most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bălă is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bălă?
- In India, the national register counted 51,870 people named Bălă, about 1 in 26 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, “Bălă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.