Barán

surname · Latin script

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

Barán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish باران (baran), from Classical Persian باران (bārān).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 258K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 271K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

41,126 people, 2026

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 931 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

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 Baran in US United States, BR Brazil, GT Guatemala.

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)

Derivation of Barán: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Barán
  1. Ottoman Turkishبارانbaran(measured from records)
  2. Classical Persianبارانbārān(measured from records)

From Ottoman Turkish باران (baran), from Classical Persian باران (bārān).

Sources 5

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Barán 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 Barán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—41,1261 in 93121K—1
US United States—6,6401 in 50K6.6KBaran105
SK Slovakia—2,1471 in 2.5K2.1K——
BR Brazil—8211 in 258K821Baran52
CZ Czechia—6781 in 16K678——
NO Norway—4381 in 12K438—3
DK Denmark—3961 in 15K396——
HR Croatia—3351 in 13K335——
GT Guatemala#660≈63 est.≈1 in 271K—Baran14

41,126 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Barán is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Baran, Bārān, Barań, Băran, Bãran

  • Polish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Slovak, Czech

    Also written Baran, Barań, Báráň, Bãŕâñ, Bàřàń

  • English surname110 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Colombia, Philippines

    Languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew

    Also written Baron, Baran, בראון, ברון, Brown

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Philippines, Türkiye

    Also written Baran, Bárán

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Barán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Iloko, kind of small, edible, gastropodous freshwater mollusk with a rough shell

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Barán 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

What does the name Barán mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish باران (baran), from Classical Persian باران (bārān). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
In which country does Barán have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Barán, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Barán most common?
Barán is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 931 people carrying it.
How common is the name Barán?
In Poland, the national register counted 41,126 people named Barán in 2026, about 1 in 931 residents.
How common is Barán compared with other names?
In Guatemala, Barán is the 660th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Barán” — the 660th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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