Balát
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Balát is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 92K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 113K
- ESSpain1 in 1M
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.
- Slovakia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Balat in CZ Czechia.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balát 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)Balát is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Iloko, kind of blackish, edible worm, resembling a leech; it is found in brackish pools along the seashore
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In hnn, edible black squid, but not greatly valued as a source of food
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In phi-pro, edible marine invertebrate - probably sea cucumber
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, sea cucumber
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Vladimír Balátb. 1987SKSlovak footballer
- Albín Balátb. 1997CZCzech presenter
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 95 | #17,576 |
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
- In which country does Balát have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 people named Balát in Slovakia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balát.
- How common is the name Balát?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 95 people named Balát, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Balát?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bal%C3%A1tThe 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, “Balát”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.