Banza
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bənzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 33K
- AOAngola≈1 in 38K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Banza is read(measured from records)
Banza is one spelling over 5 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.
- English28%
A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Banza in French.
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Banza in Spanish.
- Portuguese8.8%
feminine singular of banzo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Banza in Swahili.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Banza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 5 | Banza | 6 |
| AO Angola | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Banza | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Banza | 11 |
| PT Portugal | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Banza | 42 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Banza | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 97 | 1 in 2.2M | 97 | Banza | 18 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028). 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)
Banza 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.
- žr. Bandža
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In lua, to be married, be brought to home of the groom. This word is used only by the bride.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Kinyarwanda, begin (by doing something) (usually followed by an infinitive)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Haitian Creole, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides
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)
- Simon Banzab. 1996FRDR Congolese footballer
- Céline Banzab. 1997CDCongolese singer
- Enoch Banzab. 2000FIFinnish association football player
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 97 | #64,826 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028) | 2026 | 5 | #2 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Banza mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Banza?
- A machine transcription gives /bənzə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Banza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Banza in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banza.
- How common is the name Banza?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 97 people named Banza, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/banzaThe 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, “Banza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.