Baccalà
surname · Latin script
Baccalà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: salt cod, stockfish.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 165K
- ARArgentina1 in 623K
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)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
143 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baccala in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland 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)
salt cod, stockfish
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baccalà 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 | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 151 | Baccala | 117 |
| AR Argentina | 73 | 1 in 623K | 73 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Baccala | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Baccala | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Baccala | 1 |
143 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Claudio Baccalàb. 1923CHSwiss artist (1923-2007)
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 3 sources across 2 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 Baccalà mean, and where does it come from?
- salt cod, stockfish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Baccalà?
- In the etymology graph, Bacalao and Kabeljau are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Baccalà have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 143 people named Baccalà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baccala.
- Where is Baccalà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baccalà is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 165 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Baccalà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Baccalà in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baccal%C3%A0The 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, “Baccalà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.