Bakalian
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bækəɫiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bakalian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Bakalyan.
- UYUruguay1 in 51K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
135 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- ArmenianԲակալյանBakalyan(inferred from the name graph)via Bakalyan
- Ottoman Turkishبقالbakkal“grocer”(inferred from the name graph)via Բակալյան
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Bakalyan.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakalian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 135 | Bakalian | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | 66 | 1 in 51K | 66 | Bakalian | 5 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Bakalian | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Bakalian | 6 |
| FR France | — | — | 7 | — | — |
135 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 135 | #126,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 127 | #136,807 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Bakalian mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Bakalyan. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bakalian?
- A machine transcription gives /bækəɫiən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bakalian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 135 people named Bakalian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakalian.
- Where is Bakalian most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bakalian is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bakalian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 135 people named Bakalian in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakalianThe 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, “Bakalian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.