Balane
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Balane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- MZMozambique≈1 in 7.3K
- RERéunion≈1 in 18K
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
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balane 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 | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Balane | 68 |
| MZ Mozambique | #711 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Balane | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Balane | 6 |
| IN India | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Balane | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Balane | 6 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Balane | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 38 | 1 in 5.6M | 38 | Balane | 9 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Balane 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, barnacle, especially the acorn barnacle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of balanus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a 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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Balane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Balane in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balane.
- How common is the name Balane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 38 people named Balane, about 1 in 5.6 million residents.
- How common is Balane compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Balane is the 711th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Balane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balaneThe 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, “Balane” — the 711th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.