Babila
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Daddy is back (name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bæbiɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 128K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 11K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 28K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Daddy is back (name
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Babila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Babila | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Babila | 23 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Babila | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | Babila | 8 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Babila | 82 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | listed | Babila | 4 |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 5 | — | 1 |
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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Babila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dru, monkey
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #192,353 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #247,559 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Babila mean, and where does it come from?
- Daddy is back (name Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Babila?
- A machine transcription gives /bæbiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Babila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Babila in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babila.
- How common is the name Babila?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8 people named Babila in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babilaThe 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, “Babila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.