Bacha

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A dancing boy in parts of Central Asia

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bacha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 5.2K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 11K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bacha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈48,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
209 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BachchaLatin(measured from records)
ΜπαχαGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Bachcha in IN India.

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 dancing boy in parts of Central Asia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bacha 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 Bacha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#355≈48,000 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Bacha44
DZ Algeria#119≈8,200 est.≈1 in 5.2KlistedBacha36
MA Morocco#558≈3,300 est.≈1 in 11K—Bacha46
IN India—3,187as Bachha1 in 416K3.2KBachcha58
FR France—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 31K294Bacha209
TN Tunisia#359≈1,900 est.≈1 in 6.1K—Bacha31
BR Brazil—1,0471 in 202K1K—3
AE United Arab Emirates#583≈990 est.≈1 in 10K—Bacha42

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Bacha is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bachá

  • Amharic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, Pakistan, United States, Malaysia

    Also written ባጫ, Beche, ባቻ, በጨ

  • Polish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Pakistan

    Languages: Polish, Czech

    Also written Baçhä, Bãçhá, Bäčhã, Bãčhã, Bäċhä

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Bacha 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 Russian, "beauty."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Latin, stream, brook

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In iba, read

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Ķīnā (Paca), Tibetas autonomajā reģionā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Eugène Bacha, b. 1864Nelly Bacha, b. 1941Edmar Bacha, b. 1942Julia Bacha, b. 1980Slim Bacha, b. 1986Aymen Bacha, b. 1999Selma Bacha, b. 2000

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 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Bacha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#8,888
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991294—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981226—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971201—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961165—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—126#24,391
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—79#26,599
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193115—

Reference works 5

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 Bacha mean, and where does it come from?
A dancing boy in parts of Central Asia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bacha have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Bacha in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bacha.
How common is the name Bacha?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,047 people named Bacha, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
How common is Bacha compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Bacha is the 355th most common surname of 51,489 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, “Bacha” — the 355th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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