Bára
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given names Barbora or Barbara
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/baːra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bára is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 1.2K
- CZCzechia1 in 1.4K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
7,568 people
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a diminutive of the female given names Barbora or Barbara
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bára 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.
7,568 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); SURS — resident population given 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bára is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Faroese, Bára, one of the nine daughters of Ægir.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, bar (public house)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, wave, billow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Iloko, red-hot
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bára Kopeckáb. 1970CZCzech film director
- Bára Skaale Klaksteinb. 1973association football player
- Bára Stlukováb. 1973CZphotographer
- Bára Dočkalováb. 1977screenwriter
- Bára Mrázkováb. 1978CZphotographer
- Bára Valeckáb. 1986CZscreenwriter
- Bára Gísladóttirb. 1989ISIcelandic musician and composer
- Bára Obornáb. 2000CZCzech volleyball player
- Bára Hadáčkováb. 2001CZbadminton player
- Bára Šenfeldováb. 2004CZbadminton player
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7.6K | #224 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 3.8K | #248 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3.8K | #248 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 373 | #97 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 328 | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2024 | — | #97 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2023 | — | #87 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2022 | — | #94 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #62 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2018 | — | #93 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2017 | — | #114 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Bára mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given names Barbora or Barbara Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bára?
- A machine transcription gives /baːra/ (IPA) for Czech.
- Is Bára a male or female name?
- Bára is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Bára?
- In the etymology graph, Bobbie, Bobbi and Barb are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Barbora.
- In which country does Bára have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Bára, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bára most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bára is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bára?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 7,568 people named Bára, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Bára compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Bára is the 675th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bára?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A1raThe 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, “Bára” — the 675th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.