Babaei
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Babaei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.1M
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 17K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Babaei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Babaei | 3 |
| IR Iran | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Babaei | 63 |
| US United States | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Babaei | 92 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 531K | — | Babaei | 55 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 661K | — | Babaei | 14 |
| SE Sweden | 77 | 1 in 133K | 77 | Babaei | 15 |
| NO Norway | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 29 | 1 in 202K | 29 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ferenc Babaib. 1742HUnot in their usual nameHungarian Jesuit, poet (1742-1778)
- Brahim Babaïb. 1936TNnot in their usual nameTunisian film director and producer
- László Babaib. 1950HUnot in their usual nameHungarian mathematician and computer scientist
- Shpëtim Babajb. 1981ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian footballer
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 77 | #8,888 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #32,212 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29 | #17,297 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Babaei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Babaei in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babaei.
- How common is the name Babaei?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 77 people named Babaei, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Babaei?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babaeiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Babaei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.