Bauta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bauta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 72K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bauta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 580K | — | Bauta | 10 |
| US United States | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 266 | Bauta | 107 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Bauta | 9 |
| PL Poland | 75 | 1 in 510K | 42 | Bauta | 11 |
| AR Argentina | 63 | 1 in 722K | 63 | Bauta | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 47 | 1 in 72K | 47 | Bauta | 1 |
| CU Cuba | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Bauta | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | Bauta | 3 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Bauta 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, clipping of bautastein
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, nightgown
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, slavery
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Kongo Demokrātiskajā Republikā, Čuapas provinces ziemeļrietumos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Kubā, Havanas provincē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Berni Bautab. 1932DEGerman drummer (1932-2014)
- Ed Bautab. 1935CUCuban baseball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 266 | #77,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 176 | #96,033 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 63 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 47 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #55,677 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 33 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 33 | #65,493 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- In which country does Bauta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 369 people named Bauta in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bauta.
- Where is Bauta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bauta is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bauta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Bauta in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bauta?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bautaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bauta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.