Balbuena
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/balbwɛna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balbuena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Balbuena. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- PYParaguay≈1 in 814(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.6K
- UYUruguay1 in 2K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 814 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
From Spanish Balbuena. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balbuena 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 | #365 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Balbuena | 69 |
| AR Argentina | #463 | 13,320 | 1 in 3.4K | 13K | Balbuena | 67 |
| PY Paraguay | #159 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 814 | — | Balbuena | 47 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #156 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Balbuena | 48 |
| US United States | — | 4,621 | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Balbuena | 228 |
| UY Uruguay | #383 | 1,671 | 1 in 2K | 1.7K | Balbuena | 29 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Balbuena 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 bik, a surname from Spanish, common in Camarines Sur
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)
- Bernardo de Balbuenab. 1568ESpoet
- Gerardo Balbuena Carrillob. 1879PEPeruvian lawyer and politician
- José Balbuenab. 1917PEassociation football player (1917-2009)
- Agustín Balbuenab. 1945ARArgentine footballer (1945-2021)
- Fermín Balbuenab. 1962PYParaguayan footballer
- Quique Andreub. 1967ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1967)
- Patricia Balbuenab. 1974PEPeruvian lawyer
- Fabián Balbuenab. 1991PYParaguayan association football player
- Tyson Pérezb. 1996ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1996)
- 070 Shakeb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 13K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,722 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Balbuena mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Balbuena. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Balbuena?
- A machine transcription gives /balbwɛna/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Balbuena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Balbuena in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balbuena.
- How common is the name Balbuena?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 13,320 people named Balbuena, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Balbuena compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Balbuena is the 365th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balbuenaThe 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, “Balbuena” — the 365th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.