Bača

surname · Latin script

Bača is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Slovak, recorded as chief shepherd, assisted by a valach.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 12K
  • CZCzechia1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

28,082 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
65 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BačaLatin(measured from records)
БакаCyrillic(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Baca in US United States, ES Spain, PL Poland and 1 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(measured from records)

chief shepherd, assisted by a valach

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bača is read(measured from records)

Bača is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Slovak46%

    chief shepherd, assisted by a valach

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Czech26%

    chief shepherd

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Croatian25%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bača in Croatian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bača 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 Bača is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—28,0821 in 12K28KBaca55
ES Spain—2,3801 in 21K2.4KBaca5
AR Argentina—2,0851 in 22K2.1K—1
PL Poland—1,6641 in 23K841Baca65
SK Slovakia#2251,6571 in 3.3K1.7KBača50
CZ Czechia#7626371 in 17K639Baca39
CR Costa Rica—2981 in 17K298——

28,082 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Bača is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Baca, Bac-A, Baça, Baća, Bàčà

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Báča, Baća, Bācā, Bac̆a, Baca

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Canada

    Also written Baca, Bacá, Baça, Báča

  • Spanish surname57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, United States, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Baca, Bâcă, Bacà, Bacă, Bâca

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Baca, Bãca

2 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)

Bača is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Serbijā, Vojvodinas Dienvidbačkas apgabalā, 5400 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Baterija

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Rudolf Bača, b. 1884Julius Baca, b. 1886František Bača, b. 1914Bruno Bača, b. 1915Jiří Bača, b. 1941Bohumil Bača, b. 1943Jerguš Bača, b. 1965Martin Bača, b. 1985Samuel Bača, b. 1991Tadeáš Bača, b. 2000

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 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Bača
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)19951.7K—
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—639#2,222
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—637#2,307
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#213,684
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#249,722

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Bača mean, and where does it come from?
chief shepherd, assisted by a valach Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bača have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Bača, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baca.
Where is Bača most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bača is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bača?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,082 people named Bača in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Bača compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Bača is the 225th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bača” — the 225th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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