Balus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Balus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 293K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 294K
- CZCzechia1 in 369K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Balus | 12 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Balus | 62 |
| DE Germany | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Balus | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 40 | 1 in 293K | 40 | Balus | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | 29 | 1 in 369K | 29 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Balus is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In se, locative singular of ballu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lbb, blue dove
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mba, to avenge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In uvl, airplane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, pigeon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Izlikt balot; atrasties balošanas stadijā
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 40 | #30,701 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 29 | #42,644 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 29 | #13,558 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Balus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 371 people named Balus in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balus.
- Where is Balus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balus is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Balus?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 40 people named Balus in 2008, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balusThe 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, “Balus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.