Bacalo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: neuter singular active past participle of bacati
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bacalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 176K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)
≈88 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
neuter singular active past participle of bacati
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bacalo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Bacalo | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 25 | 1 in 8.5M | 25 | Bacalo | 5 |
| HR Croatia | 24 | 1 in 176K | 28 | Bacalo | 12 |
| AR Argentina | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Bacalo | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 24 | #20,751 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bacalo mean, and where does it come from?
- neuter singular active past participle of bacati Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bacalo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 88 people named Bacalo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bacalo.
- Where is Bacalo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bacalo is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 176 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bacalo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 25 people named Bacalo, about 1 in 8.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bacaloThe 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, “Bacalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.