Baú
surname · Latin script
Meaning: trunk, suitcase
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Baú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 69K(measured from records)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 32K
- DKDenmark1 in 45K
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)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
3,049 people
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, 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 Baù in FR France, IT Italy and Bau in BR Brazil.
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)
trunk, suitcase
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baú 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,049 | 1 in 69K | 3K | Bau | 65 |
| ES Spain | 841 | 1 in 59K | 841 | — | 91 |
| IT Italy | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Baù | 14 |
| US United States | 593 | 1 in 561K | 593 | — | 45 |
| FR France | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 136 | Baù | 143 |
| AR Argentina | 546 | 1 in 83K | 546 | — | 41 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 1 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 129 | 1 in 45K | 129 | — | — |
3,049 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Baú 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 pam, a smell, odor
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Baú mean, and where does it come from?
- trunk, suitcase Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Baú?
- In the etymology graph, Bahut is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Baú have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Baú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bau.
- How common is the name Baú?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,049 people named Baú, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ba%C3%BAThe 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, “Baú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.