Baalu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Baalu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 13Kas Bally(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 25Kas বালি
- HRCroatia1 in 41Kas Bali
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 Baalu 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
22,199 named Bali
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Bally
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled ବିାଲ in IN India and বালি in BD Bangladesh.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baalu 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 | — | 22,199as Bali | 1 in 60K | 22K | ବିାଲ | 7 |
| BD Bangladesh | #860 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | বালি | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 664as Bally | 1 in 13K | 664 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 484as Bali | 1 in 687K | 1.2K | — | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 250as Baali | 1 in 200K | 250 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 102as Bali | 1 in 41K | 102 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 82as Bali | 1 in 67K | 82 | — | — |
22,199 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bali. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Baalu a male or female name?
- Baalu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Baalu have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Bali, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Baalu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Baalu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people named Bally.
- How common is the name Baalu?
- In India, the national register counted 22,199 people named Bali, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Baalu compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Baalu is the 860th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baaluThe 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, “Baalu” — the 860th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.