Badana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sheepskin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bædænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Badana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
530 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sheepskin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Badana 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.
530 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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. 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)
Badana 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 Polish, female equivalent of badany (“researchee”) (a person under examination)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, flap, dust jacket (of a book)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, alternative form of bidinea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, whitewash, limewash
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »krečenje, prevlačenje zidova krečnom vodom«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Visitación Badanab. 1937PHFilipino athlete born 1937
- Eve Badanab. 1993CAfootballer
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #3,169 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 530 | #8,801 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Badana mean, and where does it come from?
- sheepskin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Badana?
- A machine transcription gives /bædænə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Badana have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 530 people named Badana, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Badana most common?
- Badana is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Badana?
- In India, the national register counted 530 people named Badana, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/badanaThe 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, “Badana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.