Throughout the world, Badian (Badiane 
, Badian 
, Бадиан 
) is quite a rare dominantly male, but infrequently female given name. The first name Badian is characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Senegal, where it is quite a rare mostly male, but uncommonly female name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare masculine name, and Mali. More frequently, Badian is the last name as well as the forename.