Bahia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: state. Brazil
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bahia is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- ARArgentina
- MXMexico
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bahía in CO Colombia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
state. Brazil
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bahia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Bahia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, abura (Mitragyna ledermannii, syn. M. ciliata)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In any, abura
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)
- Bahia Rachedib. 1948DZAlgerian actress
- Bahia Haririb. 1952LBLebanese politician
- Lalla Bahiab. 1953MAWife of the King of Morocco
- Bahia Massoundib. 1976KMpolitician from Comoros
- Bahia Shehabb. 1977LBEgyptian-Lebanese visual artist and historian
- Bahia Mouhtassineb. 1979MAMoroccan tennis player
- André Bahiab. 1983BRBrazilian association football player
- Alan Bahiab. 1983BRBrazilian association football player
- Bahia Bakarib. 1995FRFrench airplane crash survivor
- Bahia Watsonb. 2000CACanadian actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27K | #649 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 343 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 178 | #18,040 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 178 | #18,011 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 16 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bahia mean, and where does it come from?
- state. Brazil Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Bahia have the most bearers?
- Bahia is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled bahia.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bahiaThe 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, “Bahia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.