Biju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The honey badger
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/biʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Biju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 404K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.7K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 68K
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)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The honey badger.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Biju 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 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Biju | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Biju | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Biju | 12 |
| US United States | 823 | 1 in 404K | 797 | Biju | 210 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Biju | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Biju | 21 |
| IE Ireland | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Biju | 7 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Biju is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, was; first-person singular past indicative of būt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, first-person singular present indicative of bít
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hsb, first-person singular present of bić
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, first-person singular present of biś
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, jewel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Biju Patnaikb. 1916INIndian politician, aviator and businessman (1916–1997)
- Biju Phukanb. 1947INIndian actor (1947-2017)
- Biju Mathewb. 1963INAmerican writer
- Biju Pappanb. 1969INIndian actor
- Biju Toppob. 1969INIndian filmmaker
- Biju Menonb. 1970INIndian actor
- Biju Narayananb. 1970INIndian singer
- Biju Bhaskarb. 1974INIndian architect and natural builder, founder of Thannal Natural Homes
- Biju ViswanathUSAmerican film director
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 797 | #14,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #14,347 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Biju?
- A machine transcription gives /biʒu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Biju mean, and where does it come from?
- The honey badger. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Biju a male or female name?
- Biju is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Biju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Biju in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled biju.
- How common is the name Biju?
- In the United States, the national register counted 823 people named Biju in 2020, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bijuThe 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, “Biju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.