Bulai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bʊlaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bulai is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
. 1. Bulai, 1. (Sd XI 87 ; 17 A III 10) ; Bulaiu, R. (Am 108) ; - G. (BAP II 226) ; - diiacul (17 A I 17) ; - Ioan (Sur V). Bulandra v. Buleandr a 2.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bulai counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bulai 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 Indonesian, albino (person or any animal with albinism)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, albino
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Costică Bulaib. 1926RORomanian jurist
- Daniel Bulaib. 1968RORomanian priest (1968-)
- Oana-Gianina Bulaib. 1980RORomanian politician
- Iulian Bulaib. 1987RORomanian politician
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 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 156 | #20,011 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 156 | #19,909 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 46 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 46 | #52,415 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #53,687 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,057 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,461 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #41,906 |
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
- How do you pronounce Bulai?
- A machine transcription gives /bʊlaɪ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Bulai have the most bearers?
- Bulai is most frequently recorded in Spain.
What do you want to know about Bulai?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bulaiThe 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, “Bulai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.