Balasa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bæɫɑsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balasa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- RORomania≈1 in 7.5K
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
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balasa 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 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Balasa | 43 |
| RO Romania | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Balasa | 15 |
| PL Poland | 374 | 1 in 102K | 189 | — | — |
| US United States | 280 | 1 in 1.2M | 280 | Balasa | 121 |
| IN India | 212 | 1 in 6.3M | 212 | Balasa | 6 |
| ES Spain | 170 | 1 in 294K | 170 | — | 4 |
| HR Croatia | 17 | 1 in 249K | 17 | — | — |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Balasa 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 Filipino, shuffle (act of shuffling cards)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Doina Balasab. 1944RORomanian rower
- Mircea BalasaESresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 371 | #8,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 280 | #69,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 267 | #77,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 240 | #74,957 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 212 | #17,062 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 189 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 189 | #17,037 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 185 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 185 | #17,630 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 170 | #18,707 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 170 | #18,614 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Balasa?
- A machine transcription gives /bæɫɑsə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Balasa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Balasa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balasa.
- How common is the name Balasa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 374 people named Balasa in 2026, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Balasa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balasaThe 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, “Balasa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.