Balabas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bɑɫəbəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balabas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 175Kas Балабас(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 514Kas Балабас
- PLPoland1 in 571K
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 Balabas 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 571K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280 named Балабас, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Балабас in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balabas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 514K | — | Балабас | 87 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Балабас | 14 |
| PL Poland | 67 | 1 in 571K | 35 | Balabas | 8 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 616K | — | Балабас | 18 |
| US United States | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 533K | — | Балабас | 4 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)Balabas 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 Latin, second-person singular imperfect active indicative of bālō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, second-person singular imperfect indicative of balar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Apcietinātajam nododamie produkti
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sviests
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Tauki
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Desa
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35 | #63,133 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 32 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #66,362 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Balabas?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɫəbəz/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Balabas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 276 people named Балабас in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Balabas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balabas is densest in Poland — about 1 in 571 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Balabas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 67 people named Balabas in 2026, about 1 in 571 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balabasThe 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, “Balabas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.