Babis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Babis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 75K
- PLPoland1 in 128K
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)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
299 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Babis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 299 | 1 in 128K | 159 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 169 | Babis | 116 |
| CZ Czechia | 143 | 1 in 75K | 143 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 678K | — | Babis | 39 |
| PH Philippines | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Babis | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 25 | 1 in 235K | 25 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Babis | 5 |
299 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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Babis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, masculine plural of babi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Skrandains ubags, arī biedēklis, ar ko baida mazus nepaklausīgus bērnus
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Suns
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Kasia Babisb. 1992PLPolish comics writer
- Henryk BabisPLPolish economist
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 159 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 159 | #20,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 146 | #123,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 145 | #119,508 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 140 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 140 | #22,248 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25 | #19,565 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Babis?
- In the etymology graph, Haralamb is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Babis have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 299 people named Babis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Babis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Babis is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Babis?
- In Poland, the national register counted 299 people named Babis in 2026, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Babis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babisThe 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, “Babis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.