Batalha
surname · Latin script
Meaning: battle
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɐtaʎɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Batalha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 2.1Kas Batalla
- ARArgentina1 in 8.5Kas Batalla
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Batalha 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
22,645 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Batalla in ES Spain, US United States.
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)
battle
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Batalha 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 22,645 | 1 in 9.3K | 23K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 5,355as Batalla | 1 in 8.5K | 5.4K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 2,858as Batalla | 1 in 18K | 2.9K | Batalla | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,633as Batalla | 1 in 2.1K | 1.6K | — | — |
| US United States | 943as Batalla | 1 in 353K | 943 | Batalla | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 115as Batalla | 1 in 44K | 115 | — | — |
22,645 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Batalha is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, battle (general action, fight, or encounter; a combat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of batalla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mkw, Combate
as a wordApontamentos soltos da língua macúa
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)
- Jaime Batalha Reisb. 1847PTPortuguese Agronomist and Diplomat
- José Lodi Batalhab. 1896BRBrazilian association football player
- Elber Batalhab. 1944BRBrazilian lawyer, public defender and politician
- César Batalhab. 1945PTPortuguese conductor (1945-2022)
- Natalie Batalhab. 1966USAmerican astrophysicist
- Daniel Batalha Henriquesb. 1966PTPortuguese Roman Catholic prelate (1966–2022)
- Martha Batalhab. 1973BRBrazilian writer and journalist
- Sofia Batalhab. 1988PTpolitician in Portugal
- Izak Batalhab. 2000BRbadminton player
- Nuno BatalhaPTresearcher
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23K | #736 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,040 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Batalha mean, and where does it come from?
- battle Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Batalha?
- A machine transcription gives /bɐtaʎɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Batalha?
- In the etymology graph, Guerra is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Batalha have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Batalha, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Batalha most common?
- Batalha is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Batalha?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 22,645 people named Batalha, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/batalhaThe 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, “Batalha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.