Ba
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Vietnamese numeral ‘three’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ba is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Vietnam.
- VNVietnam
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vietnamese numeral ‘three’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | — | listed | Ba | 173 |
| MR Mauritania | — | 114K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 3.4K | — | 8 |
| US United States | — | 3.2K | — | 99 |
| FR France | — | 1.1K | — | 1 |
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: The page discusses common family names in Mauritania, reflecting the rich cultural heritage and diverse history of the c; the wgnd-vn-names register; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Ba 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.
West Africa
as a nameAfrican Names
In dag, native of Dagbaq. Dagbandoo Dagband n. Dagomba man; follower of KO aba (old) Dagomba ways, traditionalist Dagbani n. Dagbamba language. Eastern dialect (T.N.). Dagbanli n. Dagbani Western dialect (TN.): spoken with hidden meaning: A ni nil] ma shem maa, di viela. What you have done to me is good. - meaning, ‘It really offends me.’ Dagboq n. country of the Dagbamba. (also Dagbaq KO)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Akan, r. + to spring, to flow; asuteii a eba yiye, n flotving sireatn.- 1. 8. wanya (x waba) ha mmae. 0-ba,+ mfrihyia du ba, mfe aduosia oba, a person of ten, sixty
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In men, honour, respect, worthiness. Numui ji bald ngi ma, As to this man, honour is on him, z.e.he is worthy, deserving of. Ba gd and ba do, give honour
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In cdo, a foot-stool, steps, stairs, (gié-cd) BATIK to keep time to music with the feet. PC) to step, (of an actor). BA TBE to tread on
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Ba Ub. 1887MM2nd President of Burma
- Ba Mawb. 1893MMBurmese politician and former head of the now-defunct State of Burma
- Mariama Bab. 1929SNSenegalese writer (1929–1981)
- Ba Mamadou Mbaréb. 1946MRMauritanian politician
- Ba Geb. 1954TWTaiwanese actor (1954-2022)
- Amadou Bab. 1961SNPrime minister of Senegal (2022-2024)
- Inday Bab. 1972SESwedish actress (1972–2005)
- Ibrahim Bab. 1973SNFrench footballer (born 1973)
- Demba Bab. 1985FRSenegalese-French footballer (born 1985)
- Amadou Onanab. 2001BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 2001)
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 56 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.4K | #1,527 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.4K | #1,527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #7,178 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 894 | #7,178 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #26,091 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 42 | #14,701 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Ba mean, and where does it come from?
- Vietnamese numeral ‘three’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- In which country does Ba have the most bearers?
- Ba is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled ba.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baThe 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, “Ba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.