Babinski

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 443K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 24K
  • NONorway1 in 144K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

1,576 people, 2026

Sources
205 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Babinski 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 Babinski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,5761 in 24K1.6K—1
BR Brazil9421 in 225K942—2
US United States7511 in 443K754Babinski205
DE Germany≈140 est.≈1 in 589K—Babinski45
CA Canada≈94 est.≈1 in 401K—Babinski30
NO Norway381 in 144K38—3
IE Ireland≈31 est.≈1 in 167K—Babinski3

1,576 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Babinski is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Babiński

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Babiński, Bąbiński

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Croatia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Бабински

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Babiński

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Babiński, Babiňski

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 Babinski,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Babinski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—942#9,809
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020754#32,654
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010751#30,946
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000694#31,530
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202644—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—44#53,947
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#30,751
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#190,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Babinski?
A machine transcription gives /bəˈbɪnski/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Babinski have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Babinski, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Babinski most common?
Babinski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Babinski?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,576 people named Babinski in 2026, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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

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