Bancale
surname · Latin script
Bancale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: second-person singular voseo imperative of bancar combined with le.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 424K
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular voseo imperative of bancar combined with le
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bancale 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Bancale | 41 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 424K | listed | Bancale | 8 |
| US United States | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | listed | Bancale | 72 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Bancale | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Bancale | 9 |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Bancale | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Bancale 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 French, feminine singular of bancal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, a long bench with a back
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bancale mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular voseo imperative of bancar combined with le Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bancale have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Bancale in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bancale.
- How common is the name Bancale?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,700 people in the Philippines have Bancale as their first surname, about 1 in 63 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bancaleThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bancale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.