Bă
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 37K
- SNSenegal≈1 in 9.2K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 297 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,376 people
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bâ in ES Spain, SN Senegal, B'A in DZ Algeria and Ba in TN Tunisia.
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)
木 兰 氏 , 任 城 人 , 见 《 姓 苑 》(6) 。 同 沐 兰 姓 。 we [r=] 木 Ba A mtulantao
Sources 7
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Vietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bă 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 3,376 | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Bâ | 53 |
| US United States | — | 2,451 | 1 in 136K | 3.2K | — | 184 |
| SN Senegal | #430 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 303 | Bâ | 84 |
| DZ Algeria | #696 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | B'A | 15 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ba | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 169 | 1 in 50K | 169 | — | 26 |
3,376 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling ba. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bă is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, A term of address towards a male recipient
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, BĂ interj. (Arg.) Măi.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bă have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Bă, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bâ.
- How common is the name Bă?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,376 people named Bă, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Bă compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Bă is the 430th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bă?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%83The 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, “Bă” — the 430th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.