Balen

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: inflection of balar:

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

/bæɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 115K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M
  • HRCroatia1 in 4.2K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,009 people, 2021

Sources
169 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to be annoyed, frustrated or fed up

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Balen is read(measured from records)

Balen is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English37%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Balen in English.

  • Croatian21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Balen in Croatian.

  • Portuguese11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Balen in Portuguese.

  • Spanish8.2%

    inflection of balar:

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

  • Dutch8.1%

    to be annoyed, frustrated or fed up

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Balen 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 Balen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1,0091 in 4.2K1K—2
PH Philippines≈950 est.≈1 in 115K—Balen25
BR Brazil7721 in 274K772—2
US United States2461 in 1.4M282Balen169
IN India≈170 est.≈1 in 7.7M1—13
AU Australia≈100 est.≈1 in 246K1Balen46
SI Slovenia271 in 78K27—1

1,009 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)

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

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Baelen, Бален, Baljen

  • Portuguese surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Balén, Balèn, Bálen, Bãlen

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Balén

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Balén

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Philippines, United States

    Also written Balên

37 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)

Balen 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, Balen. Born in 1373.

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

  • In enm, alternative form of Balyne

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

  • In Swedish, definite singular of bal

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

  • In Luxembourgish, plural of Bal

    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)

1400160018002000Hendrick van Balen the Elder, b. 1570Matthijs Balen, b. 1684Adam H. Balen, b. 1960Michael van Balen, b. 1961Željko Balen, b. 1990

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Balen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211K#544
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021923—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—772#11,590
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000282#65,668
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010246#77,788
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020242#83,650
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—27#11,410
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#24,518
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Where does the name Balen come from?
to be annoyed, frustrated or fed up Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Balen?
A machine transcription gives /bæɫən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Balen mean?
In Spanish, inflection of balar:
In which country does Balen have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Balen, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Balen most common?
Balen is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Balen?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,009 people named Balen in 2021, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Balen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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