Biás
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Biás is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c.
- USUnited States1 in 51K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 132K
- BRBrazil1 in 191K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, 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 Bias in US United States, PH Philippines, BR Brazil and 4 more.
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)
- Frenchbiais"sideways“sideways, askance, against the grain”(measured from records)
- Old Occitanbiais(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*biaxius“with two axes”(measured from records)
c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”).
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Biás 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Bias | 2 |
| US United States | 6,518 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Bias | 315 |
| BR Brazil | 1,107 | 1 in 191K | 1.1K | Bias | 57 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Bias | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Bias | 33 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Bias | 3 |
| DK Denmark | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Bias | 3 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Biás 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 Filipino, internode (on cane or cane-like structures); a joint (of bone) with or without meat
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Biás mean, and where does it come from?
- c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Biás have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Biás in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bias.
- How common is the name Biás?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,518 people named Biás in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bi%C3%A1sThe 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, “Biás”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.