Balina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: They have
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bæɫinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 83K
- ARArgentina1 in 152K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
485 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
They have.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balina 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 | 485 | 1 in 2.7M | 485 | Balina | 34 |
| AR Argentina | 300 | 1 in 152K | 300 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 151 | 1 in 331K | 151 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | — | — |
| US United States | 126 | 1 in 2.6M | 151 | Balina | 22 |
| PL Poland | 111 | 1 in 345K | 65 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 41 | 1 in 83K | 41 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
485 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Balina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, auger; borer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, whale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »kit«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Malaizijā, Kedahas štata austrumu daļā
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aloysius Balinab. 1945TZRoman Catholic bishop (1945-2012)
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #3,511 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 485 | #9,404 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 151 | #120,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 65 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 65 | #41,482 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 46 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 46 | #52,367 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 41 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #34,717 |
| 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
- What does the name Balina mean, and where does it come from?
- They have. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Balina?
- A machine transcription gives /bæɫinə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Balina have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 485 people named Balina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balina.
- Where is Balina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balina is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Balina?
- In India, the national register counted 485 people named Balina, about 1 in 2.7 million 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/balinaThe 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, “Balina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.