Basaldúa
surname · Latin script
Basaldúa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Basaldúa, itself from Basque baso (“forest”) + aldu (“high”).
- ARArgentina1 in 43K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 77K
- USUnited States1 in 253K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
1,314 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Basaldua in US United States, ES Spain.
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)- SpanishBasaldúa(measured from records)
- Basquebaso“forest”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Basaldúa, itself from Basque baso (“forest”) + aldu (“high”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Basaldúa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,314 | 1 in 253K | 1.3K | Basaldua | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 1,059 | 1 in 43K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 186 | 1 in 269K | 186 | Basaldua | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 44 | 1 in 77K | 44 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
1,314 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joel Basaldúab. 1974PEPeruvian wrestler
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Basaldúa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Basaldúa, itself from Basque baso (“forest”) + aldu (“high”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Basaldúa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Basaldúa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basaldua.
- Where is Basaldúa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Basaldúa is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Basaldúa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,314 people named Basaldúa in 2010, about 1 in 253 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basald%C3%BAaThe 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, “Basaldúa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.