Baía

surname · Latin script

Meaning: bay, harbor

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 7K(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 31K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 161K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

30,133 people

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Baia in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

bay, harbor

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Baía 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 Baía is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil30,1331 in 7K30KBaía48
PT Portugal≈330 est.≈1 in 31K—Baía27
US United States2471 in 1.3M299Baia33
AO Angola≈200 est.≈1 in 161K—Baía4
ES Spain491 in 1M49Baia12
CH Switzerland481 in 175K48—2
DK Denmark71 in 838K7——

30,133 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling baia. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Baía is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Baïa, Baiá, Baia

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Baia, Bai'A, Bäîâ, Báia

  • Russian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Баиа, Baia, Байа, Бая, Баий

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Baia, Baiã

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Indonesia

    Also written Baia

  • Japanese name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Baia

9 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)

Baía is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, bay (body of water mostly surrounded by land)

    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)

19201940196019802000Clariano Marques Baía, b. 1937Vítor Baía, b. 1969Pedro Augusto Baía, b. 1987Tiago Pinto, b. 1988Luís Baía, 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Baía
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202412#53,184

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Baía mean, and where does it come from?
bay, harbor Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Baía have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Baía, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baía.
Where is Baía most common?
Baía is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Baía?
In Brazil, the national register counted 30,133 people named Baía, about 1 in 7.0 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, “Baía”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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