Badilla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/badiʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Badilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 189(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 3.7K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.9K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189 (inferred from the name graph)
26,931 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
Badilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #49 | 26,931 | 1 in 189 | 27K | Badilla | 91 |
| PH Philippines | #557 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Badilla | 53 |
| CL Chile | #400 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Badilla | 90 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Badilla | 29 |
| US United States | — | 1,663 | 1 in 200K | 1.7K | Badilla | 189 |
| AR Argentina | — | 754 | 1 in 60K | 754 | Badilla | 36 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Badilla | 1 |
26,931 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jorge Luis Villanueva Badillab. 1928CRCosta Rican politician
- José Alberto Soto Badillab. 1940CRCosta Rican philosopher (1940-)
- Sergio Badilla Castillob. 1947SEChilean poet
- Rodrigo Badillab. 1957CRCosta Rican football referee
- Cristian Badillab. 1978CRCosta Rican association football player
- Gabriel Badillab. 1984CRCosta Rican footballer (1984-2016)
- Sebastián Badillab. 1991CLChilean film director
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 27K | #78 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,331 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,007 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 754 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Badilla?
- A machine transcription gives /badiʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Badilla have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Badilla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled badilla.
- Where is Badilla most common?
- Badilla is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 189 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Badilla?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 26,931 people named Badilla, about 1 in 189 residents.
- How common is Badilla compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Badilla is the 49th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Badilla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/badillaThe 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, “Badilla” — the 49th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.