Bari
loc · Latin script
Meaning: cidadão oriundo da cidade de Bari; nome ligado à raiz pré-latina baur
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bari is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.4Kas Beer(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 14Kas Bor
- INIndia1 in 32Kas Bora
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 Bari 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
41,715 named Bora
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Beer in US United States, ZA South Africa, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Bor in TR Türkiye.
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)
cidadão oriundo da cidade de Bari; nome ligado à raiz pré-latina baur
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bari 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 41,715as Bora | 1 in 32K | 42K | Bari | 140 |
| ZA South Africa | #213 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Beer | 106 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 9 | Beer | 20 |
| US United States | — | 8,252as Bear | 1 in 40K | 9K | Beer | 360 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Bor | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,572as Bär | 1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Beer | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,280as Bore | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | — | 10 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 723 | 1 in 7.5K | 723 | — | 8 |
41,715 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bora. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Bari 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 English, long., people, Africa; prov & town
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Italy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, innocent, blameless, guiltless, sound. Comp. Baari‘ ¢ 5b, brilliant; Baari’ ¢,,L, originator
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In ckv, wind
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, old, stale, cold (of foods which have stood around a long time), become sour, tainted
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Alexander Barib. 1847USRussian and American engineer and entrepreneur (1847-1913)
- Nina Barib. 1901RURussian mathematician (1901–1961)
- Lynn Barib. 1913USAmerican actress (1913–1989)
- Ruth Aaronson Barib. 1917USAmerican mathematician (1917–2005)
- Bari Woodb. 1936USAmerican writer
- Gina Kolatab. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist
- Judi Barib. 1949USAmerican environmentalist (1949–1997)
- Andrea Barib. 1980ITOlympic volleyball player
- Bari Weissb. 1984USAmerican television executive
- Bari Suzukib. 1986JPJapanese singer
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 63 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 21K | #582 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,058 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #7,858 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 920 | #25,272 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 723 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 498 | #982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 306 | #7,858 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 93 | #16,303 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 88 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 75 | #13,773 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 15 | #21,373 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Bari mean?
- Recorded meaning: cidadão oriundo da cidade de Bari; nome ligado à raiz pré-latina baur
- In which country does Bari have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Bora, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bari?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 723 people named Bari in 1995, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bari compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Bari is the 213th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bariThe 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, “Bari” — the 213th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.