Bando

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bændow/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 95K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 878K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 58K

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)

≈1,100 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BandoLatin(measured from records)
บรรเดาะThai(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.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Bando is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,100 est.≈1 in 95K—Bando22
IN India7031 in 1.9M703Bando18
AO Angola≈560 est.≈1 in 58K—Bando1
BR Brazil3851 in 550K385——
US United States3791 in 878K438Bando154
PL Poland3141 in 122K159——
ES Spain2661 in 188K266Bando4
HR Croatia301 in 141K30—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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bando is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bändó, Bâñdõ, Bàñdö, Bańdo, Bañdò

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bàñdô, Bañdo, Bãndõ, Bandõ, Bandò

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bandō, Bańdo

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Bańdo

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Also written Bandō, Bandô, Bändö

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bandō, Bándó

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Бандо

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1850190019502000Bandō Kōtarō, b. 1881Tsumasaburō Bandō, b. 1901Anna Stupnicka-Bando, b. 1929Eiji Bandō, b. 1940Sal Bando, b. 1944Mariko Bandō, b. 1946Kanji Bandō, b. 1950Chris Bando, b. 1956Yūta Bandō, b. 1991Nozomi Bandō, b. 1997

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)

FormalDear Bando,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Bando
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—703#7,171
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020438#51,363
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—385#21,436
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010379#54,418
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000379#51,583
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—266#13,263
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—266#13,238
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202130#18,374
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—28#9,002
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202622—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—22#83,921
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202121—

Reference works 5

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 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).
How do you pronounce Bando?
A machine transcription gives /bændow/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bando have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Bando in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bando.
How common is the name Bando?
In India, the national register counted 703 people named Bando, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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 2026-10-10.

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