Bạch
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese reading of 白
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɓa˨˩c/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bạch is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 884
- NONorway1 in 5.3K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 884 (inferred from the name graph)
11,999 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bach in US United States, ES Spain, NO Norway 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)
Sino-Vietnamese reading of 白
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bạch 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 | 11,999 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Bach | 86 |
| DK Denmark | 6,636 | 1 in 884 | 6.6K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 5,859 | 1 in 36K | 5.9K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2,599 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 1,076 | 1 in 46K | 1.1K | Bach | 7 |
| NO Norway | 1,024 | 1 in 5.3K | 1K | Bach | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | 791 | 1 in 11K | 791 | Bach | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 218 | 1 in 16K | 218 | — | — |
11,999 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Bạch 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 Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: trắng; tương ứng Blanc, Leblanc, Blanche, Lablanche, White, Weiss.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bai Juyib. 772CNnot in their usual nameChinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)
- Pai Chung-hsib. 1893TWnot in their usual nameChinese military officer and politician (1893-1966)
- Bai Guangb. 1921CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and singer (1921-1999)
- Bai Lingb. 1966CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress
- Wu Baib. 1968TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
- Bianca Baib. 1982TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Bai Baiheb. 1984CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Michelle Baib. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Bai Jingtingb. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Bai Lub. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress and model (b. 1994)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bạch mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 白 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bạch?
- A machine transcription gives /ɓa˨˩c/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Bạch a male or female name?
- Bạch 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 Bạch have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Bạch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bach.
- Where is Bạch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bạch is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 884 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bạch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,999 people named Bạch in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bạch?
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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%E1%BA%A1chThe 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, “Bạch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.