Bando
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Bando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Bando is also written บรรเดาะ in Thai.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 95K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 122K
- HRCroatia1 in 141K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bando itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bando in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bando is found
(measured from records)Bando 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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Bando | 22 |
| IN India | 703 | 1 in 1.9M | 703 | Bando | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 385 | 1 in 550K | 385 | — | — |
| US United States | 379 | 1 in 878K | 438 | Bando | 154 |
| MX Mexico | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 355K | 7 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 314 | 1 in 122K | 159 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 266 | 1 in 188K | 266 | Bando | 4 |
| AO Angola | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Bando | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 30 | 1 in 141K | 30 | — | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)Bando 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 Portuguese, group, band, flock of birds
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In gyn, a band used by women to keep their hair in place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, announcement, notice, call
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, vocative singular of bandă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, band (group of people)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tsumasaburō Bandōb. 1901JPJapanese actor (1901–1953)
- Eiji Bandōb. 1940JPJapanese television entertainer and baseball player (1940-2026)
- Mariko Bandōb. 1946JPJapanese critic and politician
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bando mean, and where does it come from?
- A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bando?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Bando in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bando. After it come India, Brazil, United States and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bando?
- In India, the national register counted 703 people named Bando, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bando?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bandoThe 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, “Bando”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.