Bulawan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bulawan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 107K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 147K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bulawan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Bulawan | 47 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Bulawan | 38 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Bulawan | 9 |
| US United States | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Bulawan | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Bulawan | 4 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Bulawan | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Bulawan 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 hil, gold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btd, a promise that is bound by oath
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bik, gold (element)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mog, gold; yellow
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In dtp, jewel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bulawan mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bulawan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Bulawan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bulawan.
- How common is the name Bulawan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6 people named Bulawan, about 1 in 8.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bulawanThe 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, “Bulawan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.