Babakan

surname · Latin script

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

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

Babakan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Indonesia.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Babakan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Babakan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia——Babakan14
US United States—listed—2

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. 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)

Babakan 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 Sundanese, new settlement on previously uninhabited land; colony

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

  • In Sundanese, newly built settlement or village

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

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Babakan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru 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

How do you pronounce Babakan?
A machine transcription gives /bɑbəkɑn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Babakan have the most bearers?
Babakan is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled babakan.

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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, “Babakan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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