Bahané

surname · Latin script

Bahané is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.

  • BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 78M
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 200Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈150 people, est.

Record sources
17 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 201K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bahane in CM Cameroon, FR France, BE Belgium.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Bahané is found

(measured from records)

Bahané 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.

Where Bahané is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon≈150 est.≈1 in 201K—Bahane4
IN India171 in 78M17——
FR France≈1 est.≈1 in 52M—Bahane17
BE Belgium11 in 12M1Bahane3
DM Dominica——1——

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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Bahané is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tanzania, Algeria

    Also written Bahane

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bahane

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bahané under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Bahané?
Mondonomo estimates about 145 people named Bahané in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahane. After it come India, France and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Bahané?
In India, the national register counted 17 people named Bahané, about 1 in 78 million 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, “Bahané”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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