Balija
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: a Bosniak or a person of Bosniak descent (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
Balija is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Balija is also written బలిజ in Telugu.
- SISlovenia≈1 in 690K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 3.1Kas Balaji
- SGSingapore≈1 in 19Kfew recordsas Balaji
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Balija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 688K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 named Balaji, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Balija in other scripts: Latin and Telugu
(measured from records)Locally spelled Balaji in IN India, US United States, AU Australia and 4 more.
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)a Bosniak or a person of Bosniak descent
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Balija is read
(measured from records)Balija is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balija in Hindi.
- Croatian31%
a Bosniak or a person of Bosniak descent
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.0%
A member of a Telugu-speaking mercantile community in parts of India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #627 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 1.3K | Balaji | 242 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Balaji | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,845as Balaji | 1 in 180K | 1.9K | Balaji | 287 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Balaji | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 691K | — | Balaji | 16 |
| SG Singapore | #836 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Balaji | 52 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Balaji | 82 |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 688K | 22 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Balija is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In poz-pro, weaver's sword (lath used to beat in and tighten the woof)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Indijā, Utarpradēšas štatā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Balija mean, and where does it come from?
- a Bosniak or a person of Bosniak descent Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Balija?
- Mondonomo estimates about 461 thousand people named Balaji in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, United States, Malaysia and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Balija?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,845 people named Balaji in 2020, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
- How common is Balija compared with other names?
- In India, Balija is the 627th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Balija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balijaThe 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, “Balija” — ranked 4350th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.