Baguio
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An independent city within Benguet in Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bæɡioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baguio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 807K
- RERéunion≈1 in 3.5K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An independent city within Benguet in Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Baguio is read(measured from records)
Baguio is one spelling over 2 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.
- English65%
An independent city within Benguet in Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
city, Philippines
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish24%
a typhoon
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Baguio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #160 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Baguio | 94 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Baguio | 4 |
| US United States | — | 412 | 1 in 807K | 488 | Baguio | 147 |
| RE Réunion | #556 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Baguio | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Baguio | 8 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Baguio | 10 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Baguio | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Baguio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, La ville de Baguio, fondée par des Américains en 1900 dans l’île de Luçon, la plus grande des Philippines dont la ville principale est Manille, est si souvent sujette à des typhons qu’elle a donné son nom à un typhon « typiquement » philippin.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Iloko, Baguio (an independent city in Benguet, Luzon, Philippines)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a common surname from Cebuano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Cyrus Baguiob. 1980PHFilipino basketball player (born 1980)
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 488 | #46,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 412 | #50,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 264 | #69,428 |
| 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
- What does the name Baguio mean, and where does it come from?
- An independent city within Benguet in Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Baguio?
- A machine transcription gives /bæɡioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Baguio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Baguio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baguio.
- How common is the name Baguio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 412 people named Baguio in 2010, about 1 in 807 thousand residents.
- How common is Baguio compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Baguio is the 160th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baguioThe 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, “Baguio” — the 160th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.