Balie
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
Balie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 30Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 67K
- BRBrazil1 in 3.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, 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)Balie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Balie | 31 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 337 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 58 | 1 in 3.7M | 58 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Balie | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 9.1M | — | Balie | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Balie | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Balie | 4 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; 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)Balie 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 Italian, plural of balia (“wet nurse”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, counter (table or board on which business is transacted)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, BÁLIE, balii, s. f. (Reg.) Vas mare circular, făcut din doage, pentru spălatul rufelor.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Balie Peytonb. 1803USAmerican politician (1803-1878)
- Balie Peyton Waggener IIb. 1898USAmerican lawyer and Kansas state legislator (1898-1979)
- Balie Swartb. 1964ZASouth African rugby union footballer and coach
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 337 | #1,385 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #94,441 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Balie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Balie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balie.
- How common is the name Balie?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 58 people named Balie, about 1 in 3.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Balie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balieThe 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, “Balie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.