Balarama

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Balarama is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

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  • INIndia

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Balarama counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Balarama is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—6Balarama66
GY Guyana—1——
CL Chile—1—10
AU Australia—1——
UY Uruguay—1—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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Balarama is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name114 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Baliram, Balaram, বলরাম, Boloram

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Balarāma, Baḷarāma, Bālārāma, Bālarāma

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Balarama is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Balarama, son of Vasudeva, and Rohini, brother of Subhadra, and Krishna, who uses a plough as his weapon.

    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 9 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Balarama
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—25#55,133
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—6#158,742

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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Balarama is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled balarama.

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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, “Balarama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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