Bania
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of bunnia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɑniə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bania is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 19K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 842K
- INIndia1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bania itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
2,055 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
jug (large, bulging, domed vessel, usually made of glass)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Bania is read(measured from records)
Bania is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bania in Hindi.
- English31%
Alternative form of bunnia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish5.9%
jug (large, bulging, domed vessel, usually made of glass)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bania 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,055 | 1 in 19K | 1K | Bania | 61 |
| IN India | 1,201 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Bania | 4 |
| ES Spain | 739as Baña | 1 in 68K | 739 | Bania | 4 |
| US United States | 395 | 1 in 842K | 438 | Bania | 33 |
| AR Argentina | 394as Baña | 1 in 115K | 394 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 114as Bana | 1 in 30K | 114 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 42as Banja | 1 in 101K | 42 | — | — |
2,055 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bania is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of banir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In szl, pumpkin, gourd, squash (any plant of genus Cucurbita)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, round necked vessel sometimes in the shape of a skull
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, pumpkin
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)
- Zbigniew Baniab. 1939PLPolish association football player
- Zbigniew Baniab. 1946PLPolish art historian
- Thomas Baniab. 1949USPh.D. University of Virginia 1977
- Radosław Baniab. 1968PLPolish political scientist
- Jacek Baniab. 1969PLPolish biologist
- Piotr Baniab. 1973PLPolish footballer
- Piotr BaniaPLPolish engineer (AGH)
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #4,754 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1K | #2,888 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1K | #3,058 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 438 | #45,909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 437 | #51,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 395 | #52,482 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #79,905 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #2,124 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Bania come from?
- jug (large, bulging, domed vessel, usually made of glass) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bania?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑniə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Bania mean?
- In English, Alternative form of bunnia.
- In which country does Bania have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Bania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bania.
- Where is Bania most common?
- Bania is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bania?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,055 people named Bania in 2026, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baniaThe 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, “Bania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.