Badža
surname · Latin script
Meaning: opening on roof or wall (for smoke or light) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Badža is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 78 people, counted by DZS in 2021. Badža is also written Баџа in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 54K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
- RSSerbia≈1 in 110Kfew recordsas Баџа
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Badža itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
78 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Badža in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Badza in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)opening on roof or wall (for smoke or light)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Badža is found
(measured from records)Badža 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 78 | 1 in 54K | 78 | Badža | 11 |
| RS Serbia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Badža | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Badza | 8 |
78 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Badža mean, and where does it come from?
- opening on roof or wall (for smoke or light) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Badža?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 78 people named Badža, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled badža. After it come Serbia and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Badža most common?
- Badža is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 54 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Badža?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 78 people named Badža in 2021, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bad%C5%BEaThe 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, “Badža” — ranked 9709th in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.