Bališ

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bali˨˦ʂ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bališ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. see Baylis .

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 61K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 169K
  • CZCzechia1 in 412K

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)

327 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BališLatin(measured from records)
БалисCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Balis in US United States.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. see Baylis .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bališ 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 Bališ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3271 in 1M590Balis4
BE Belgium1911 in 61K191—1
BR Brazil501 in 4.2M50——
CZ Czechia261 in 412K26——
HR Croatia251 in 169K25Bališ10
CH Switzerland141 in 600K14——

327 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 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Bališ is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Slovak, Czech

    Also written Balis, Baliś, Bãľïš

  • English surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Greece, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Greek, German

    Also written Balis, Μπαλης, Μπαλής, Mpalis, Mpalī́s

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Balis, Bali̲s

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalPoštovani Bališ,Dear Bališ, (English)
InformalPoštovani Bališ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Bališ
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—26#45,971
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202125#20,573
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202121—

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 Bališ mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. see Baylis . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Bališ?
A machine transcription gives /bali˨˦ʂ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Bališ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 327 people named Bališ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balis.
Where is Bališ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bališ is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bališ?
In the United States, the national register counted 327 people named Bališ in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 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, “Bališ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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