Bigá
surname · Latin script
Bigá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 42K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 128K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
354 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
»svežanj, snop; toponim; struca kruha, dugi komad kruha većinom kod kuće pečen«
Sources 2
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bigá 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.
354 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling biga. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Bigá is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, coarse erect plant up to two meters high, with stout trunk. Stems and corms of the plant are used as substitute food: Alocasia macrorrhiza
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In hnn, a giant form of taro; this plant is a cultigen; its leaves grow five to six feet and higher, and the underground stem is eaten
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bigá have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 354 people named Bigá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bigá.
- Where is Bigá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bigá is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bigá?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 354 people named Bigá, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bigá?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/big%C3%A1The 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, “Bigá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.