Balafas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/balafas/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from μπαλαφας
Balafas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 41Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 660Kfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.2Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Μπαλαφας in GR Greece.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balafas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 3 | Μπαλαφας | 31 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Balafas | 75 |
| AU Australia | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 655K | — | Balafas | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Balafas | 19 |
| DE Germany | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Balafas | 14 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Balafas | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 943K | — | Balafas | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Balafas | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Balafas?
- In Greek /balafas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Balafas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 254 people named Balafas in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled μπαλαφας.
- How common is the name Balafas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 250 people in Greece have Balafas as their first surname, about 1 in 41 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Balafas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balafasThe 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, “Balafas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.