Balin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mighty soldier; Bali, Valin
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/baɫin/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Balin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 17K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 73K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 92K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)mighty soldier; Bali, Valin
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Balin | 13 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Balin | 30 |
| FR France | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 107 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 393 | 1 in 846K | 419 | Balin | 171 |
| BR Brazil | 325 | 1 in 651K | 325 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 194 | 1 in 17K | 194 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 146 | 1 in 73K | 146 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Balin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Wing, feather
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Hungarian, superessive singular of Bali
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of Bali
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, strong
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Balín. Baliñak erosittut karabinaindako " Elexp Berg .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Mireille Balinb. 1909FRFrench actress
- Ina Balinb. 1937USAmerican actress (1937-1990)
- Marty Balinb. 1942USAmerican singer, songwriter, and musician (1942–2018)
- Jesús Noel Alzugarayb. 1963UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
- Carole B. Balinb. 1964USAmerican rabbi
- Feri Balinb. 1973ROscience-fiction writer
- Katarzyna BalinPLPolish physicist
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 402 | #49,159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 393 | #52,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 376 | #58,307 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 325 | #24,710 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 194 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 119 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 74 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Balin mean, and where does it come from?
- mighty soldier; Bali, Valin Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- How do you pronounce Balin?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /baɫin/; in Spanish /balin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Balin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Balin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balin.
- Where is Balin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balin is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Balin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 393 people named Balin in 2010, about 1 in 846 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balinThe 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, “Balin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.