Báča

surname · Latin script

Báča is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from ancestral grant of Spanish nobility, Cabeza de vaca (indicated with the skull of a cow on the coat of arms).

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 12K
  • CZCzechia1 in 17K

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)

28,082 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
65 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BáčaLatin(measured from records)
БакаCyrillic(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Baca in US United States, ES Spain, PL Poland and 1 more and Bača in SK Slovakia.

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)

Possibly from ancestral grant of Spanish nobility, Cabeza de vaca (indicated with the skull of a cow on the coat of arms).

Sources 4

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Báča 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 Báča is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—28,0821 in 12K28KBaca55
ES Spain—2,3801 in 21K2.4KBaca5
AR Argentina—2,0851 in 22K2.1K—1
PL Poland—1,6641 in 23K841Baca65
SK Slovakia#2251,6571 in 3.3K1.7KBača50
CZ Czechia#7626371 in 17K639Baca39
CR Costa Rica—2981 in 17K298——

28,082 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Báča is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Baća, Bācā, Bac̆a, Baca, Bacá

  • Spanish surname57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, United States, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Baca, Bâcă, Bacà, Bacă, Bâca

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)

Báča 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 Serbo-Croatian, svekar

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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)

1850190019502000Olga Bačová, b. 1883Selma Bačová, b. 1886Štěpánka Bačová, b. 1890Ladislav Báča, b. 1908Růžena Bačová, b. 1916Herta Bačová, b. 1917Markéta Bačová, b. 1922Václav Báča, b. 1974

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Báča
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—382#4,166
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—382#3,658

Reference works 1

  • 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 Báča mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly from ancestral grant of Spanish nobility, Cabeza de vaca (indicated with the skull of a cow on the coat of arms). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 2 other sources.
In which country does Báča have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Báča, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baca.
Where is Báča most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Báča is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Báča?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,082 people named Báča in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Báča compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Báča is the 225th most common surname of 69,668 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, “Báča” — the 225th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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