Balista
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ballista (siege engine)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/bəlɪstə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 239K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 892K
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 239K (inferred from the name graph)
887 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ballista (siege engine)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balista 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 887 | 1 in 239K | 887 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 51 | 1 in 892K | 51 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | — | Balista | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Balista | 5 |
887 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Claudio BalistaITresearcher
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 887 | #10,321 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 51 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
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 Balista mean, and where does it come from?
- ballista (siege engine) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Balista?
- A machine transcription gives /bəlɪstə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Balista have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 887 people named Balista, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Balista most common?
- Balista is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 239 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Balista?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 887 people named Balista, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Balista?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balistaThe 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, “Balista”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.