Bagu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/baɣw/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Bagu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 606K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.4M
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 104K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
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)Bagu 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.
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bagu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tut-pro, white, grey
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In mog, a thin-stemmed, short tree from the bast of which cordage is made: Gnetum gnemon
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sas, a tree the fruits and cooked leaves of which are eaten: Gnetum gnemon
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mak, Gnetum gnemon; a tree which yields bast fiber used in making cordage
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, A barangay of Abulug, Cagayan, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, a shrub: Gnetum brunonianum
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Brad Bagub. 1973DEGerman ice hockey player
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 288 | #10,892 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 156 | #21,013 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 75 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #81,634 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Bagu?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /baɣw/; in Swahili /ɓɑɠu/; in Indonesian /bˈaɡu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bagu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Bagu in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bagu.
- How common is the name Bagu?
- In India, the national register counted 156 people named Bagu, about 1 in 8.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bagu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baguThe 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, “Bagu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.