Badi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: author cited in a reference note
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bædi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Badi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 154K
- NPNepal≈1 in 211K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Badi' in ID Indonesia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
author cited in a reference note.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Badi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | — | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Badi' | 59 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 256K | listed | — | 21 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 277K | 101 | — | 1 |
| NP Nepal | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 211K | 11K | — | — |
| US United States | 133 | 1 in 2.5M | 274 | — | 37 |
| BE Belgium | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 275K | 255 | — | 2 |
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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Badi 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.
In Arabic, outstanding, evident
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Maravilloso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In jam, body (physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In syb, a nervous spell ([Churchill 1913](Source#cldf:churchill1913))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In German, lido (open-air swimming pool)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Badi H. Baltagib. 1954USLebanese-American economist
- Sihem Badib. 1967TNTunisian politician
- Chimène Badib. 1982FRFrench singer
- Walid Badib. 1995DZFrench handball player
- Ileana Badiresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 11K | #76 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 274 | #75,813 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 255 | #6,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 124 | #48,183 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 123 | #13,079 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 101 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #48,183 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Badi mean, and where does it come from?
- author cited in a reference note. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Badi?
- A machine transcription gives /bædi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Badi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Badi in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Badi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 133 people named Badi in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/badiThe 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, “Badi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.