Bapu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bapu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.8M(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 48Kas Bapi
- BHBahrain≈1 in 56Kas Bapi
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bapu 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Bapi, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bapi in KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia, BD Bangladesh and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bapu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Bapi | 14 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Bapi | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Bapi | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Bapu | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Bapi | 6 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Bapi | 8 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Bapu | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Bapi | 4 |
| IN India | #509 | — | — | 159 | Bapu | 118 |
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. 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)
Bapu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ve, grasshopper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, father
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aymara, Huakha; Papas,o Cor^ d^ros, Cuyci, Pasaros^y. co«- n fas femé jante i atTadaí con terrones calienites que cftan abrafando
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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
- Is Bapu a male or female name?
- Bapu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bapu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Bapi in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bapu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,800 people in Bangladesh have Bapi as their first given name, about 1 in 88 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Bapu compared with other names?
- In India, Bapu is the 509th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bapuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bapu” — the 509th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.