Badía

Name: Badía: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Badía is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

ESSpain1 in 7.4K(measured from records)
DODominican Republic≈1 in 13K
MAMorocco≈1 in 15Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 168 (measured from records)
: 1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Badia

Locally spelled Badia in ES Spain, DO Dominican Republic, MA Morocco and 2 more.

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

recorded in Portuguese

oriundo de localidade chamada Badia; forma reduzida de Abbadia

Cited for this meaning 1

Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Badía 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 Badía is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CD Congo - Kinshasa	—	≈8,400 est.	≈1 in 13K	—	Badia	3
ES Spain	#604	6,726	1 in 7.4K	6.7K	Badia	159
MA Morocco	—	≈2,500 est.	≈1 in 15K	listed	Badia	46
CI Côte d’Ivoire	—	≈1,100 est.	≈1 in 30K	164	—	2
BR Brazil	—	≈900 est.	≈1 in 236K	435	—	—
DO Dominican Republic	#480	≈880 est.	≈1 in 13K	—	Badia	23
UY Uruguay	—	146	1 in 23K	146	Badia	13

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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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

Badía is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name4 spellings in the group
Also written Badia, Badi︠a︡, Badiâ
English surname16 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Badia, Abtei, Badiâ, Bàdia, Bãdiã
Catalan surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, Andorra
Also written Badia, Badiá
Russian surname30 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Spain
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Also written Бадя, Бадия, Бадья, Бадія, Badia
Hindi surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Morocco
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Badia

20 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.

Notable people with this name

Domingo Badía y Leblichb. 1767ESSpanish explorer who witnessed the Saudi conquest of Mecca in 1807
Antonio Sanjurjo Badíab. 1837ESsubmarine pionner
Josep Maria Rius i Badiab. 1842ESSpanish politician (1842-1902)
Jobarob. 1938ESnot in their usual nameSpanish comics artist (1938-1984)
Manuel Ferreiro Badíab. 1944ESSpanish sculptor (1944- )
Juan Alberto Badíab. 1946ARArgentine TV and Radio host and announcer (1946–2012)
José Antonio Badía San Martínb. 1953MXMexican politician
Gerard Badíab. 1989ESSpanish footballer
Edgar Badia Guardiolab. 1992ESSpanish footballer
Saturnino González BadíaESSpanish politician

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

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

Wikipedia surname tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Badía have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Badía in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled badia.
Where is Badía most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Badía is densest in Spain — about 1 in 7.4 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Badía?: In Spain, the national register counted 6,726 people named Badía, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
How common is Badía compared with other names?: In the Dominican Republic, Badía is the 480th most common surname of 26,844 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 2026-10-13 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, “Badía” — the 480th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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