Bada
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Old English personal name; surviving in Bade
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbɑdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bada is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.
- ESSpain
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.
- Spain (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Old English personal name; surviving in Bade
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 944 | Bada | 75 |
| IN India | — | 10K | — | 8 |
| US United States | — | 586 | — | 101 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 435 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 355 | — | 47 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Bada is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cau-tsz-pro, (wine)skin
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Swedish, to bathe (immerse oneself or someone else in water (or another liquid), for cleaning, recreation, etc. – see the usage notes below)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, third-person singular present of badać
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, genitive singular of bads
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of bad
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marceliano Isábal y Badab. 1845ESSpanish politician (1835-1931)
- José Bada Panillob. 1929ESSpanish politician (1929–2026)
- Francesc Xavier Bada i Amatllerb. 1933ESSpanish politician
- Jorge Badab. 1944MXMexican field hockey player
- Sunday Badab. 1969NGathletics competitor (1969-2011)
- Bada Kimb. 1971KRSouth Korean musician
- Kim Badab. 1988KRSouth Korean actor, born 1988
- Kim Badab. 2002KRSouth Korean singer
- Kim Ba-daKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter
- KeunBaDa SonKRnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-3177-8005
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)Evidence
(measured from records)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10K | #971 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 944 | #4,654 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 944 | #4,649 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 776 | #4,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 586 | #40,323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 496 | #43,511 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 435 | #1,132 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 423 | #47,210 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 355 | #22,973 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bada?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑdə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Bada mean, and where does it come from?
- Old English personal name; surviving in Bade Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Bada have the most bearers?
- Bada is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled bada.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/badaThe 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, “Bada”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.