Bạ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bạ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to do randomly or indiscriminately.
- ESSpain1 in 15K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 531K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 50K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
3,376 people
Highest-authority source
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 Ba in BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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)
to do randomly or indiscriminately
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bạ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,376 | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Ba | 7 |
| US United States | 2,451 | 1 in 136K | 3.2K | — | 92 |
| BR Brazil | 399 | 1 in 531K | 399 | Ba | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 231 | 1 in 51K | 1.1K | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 169 | 1 in 50K | 169 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 62 | 1 in 90K | 108 | — | 3 |
3,376 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bạ is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tyz, residue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bạ mean, and where does it come from?
- to do randomly or indiscriminately Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bạ a male or female name?
- Bạ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bạ have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Bạ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ba.
- Where is Bạ most common?
- Bạ is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bạ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,376 people named Bạ, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bạ?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%E1%BA%A1The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bạ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.