Badiu

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The Cape Verdean Crioulo language spoken on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento branch of Crioulo

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 355K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 489K
  • SESweden1 in 928K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

141 people

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 355K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nostril

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Badiu is read(measured from records)

Badiu is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Romanian42%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Badiu in Romanian.

  • English18%

    The Cape Verdean Crioulo language spoken on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento branch of Crioulo.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Badiu in French.

  • German5.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Badiu in German.

  • Catalan5.0%

    nostril

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Badiu 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 Badiu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1411 in 355K141Badiu4
PL Poland411 in 934K22—1
DK Denmark121 in 489K12——
SE Sweden111 in 928K11——
BE Belgium61 in 2M6Badiu4

141 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Badiu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бадиу

44 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)

19601970198019902000Georgel Badiu, b. 1968Anca Badiu, b. 1979Ionel Badiu, b. 1989Raul Badiu, b. 1992

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)

FormalStimate domnule Badiu,Dear Mr Badiu, (English)
InformalSalut Badiu,Hi Badiu, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Badiu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—141#21,578
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—141#21,434
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202622—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—22#83,729
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202619—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—19#91,479
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—12#35,578
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11#36,595
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20086#91,548

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

Where does the name Badiu come from?
nostril Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Badiu?
A machine transcription gives /badju/ (IPA) for Romanian.
What does the name Badiu mean?
In English, The Cape Verdean Crioulo language spoken on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento branch of Crioulo.
In which country does Badiu have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 141 people named Badiu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled badiu.
Where is Badiu most common?
Badiu is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 355 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Badiu?
In Spain, the national register counted 141 people named Badiu, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Badiu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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