Babad

surname · Latin script

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

/bæbæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 11Kas Babat
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 232Kas Babat

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 Babad 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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,500 named Babat, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 187K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BabatLatin(measured from records)
БабатCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Babat in TR Türkiye, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 2 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

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)

Babad 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 Babad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈7,500 est.≈1 in 11K—Babat48
PH Philippines≈470 est.≈1 in 232K—Babat19
US United States2911 in 1.1M422Babad85
IQ Iraq≈280 est.≈1 in 137K—Babat1
NG Nigeria≈130 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Babat10
IL Israel≈46 est.≈1 in 187K—Babad10
UY Uruguay23as Babat1 in 147K23——
CY Cyprus≈18 est.≈1 in 69K—Babat4

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Babad is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bàbâd

  • Hebrew surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Poland, Romania

    Also written באבד, באבאד

33 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)

Babad is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ban, to clear forest; clearing, a cleared space

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In kaw, a clearing; to clear (a piece of forest)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Cebuano, a coconut palm frond used as a torch

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

  • In Indonesian, chronicle, annal, historical account

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

  • In Filipino, soak; soaking (in liquid)

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

  • In mrw, multiply; descendant

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950Joseph Babad, b. 1801Samuel Babad, b. 1865Abraham Babad, b. 1909Vladimir Babad, b. 1922

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Babad,
InformalHi Babad,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Babad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020422#52,998
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010291#67,747
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000202#85,996
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

How do you pronounce Babad?
A machine transcription gives /bæbæd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Babad have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Babat in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Babad?
In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Babad in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babad

The 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, “Babad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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