Bańda

surname · Latin script

Bańda is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. Recorded meaning: From Spanish banda. Doublet of band.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal
  • BRBrazil

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Banda in BR Brazil, PT Portugal.

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)

From Spanish banda. Doublet of band.

Sources 2

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bańda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Bańda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—171Banda52
PT Portugal——Banda12
ZM Zambia—339K—22
US United States—15K—98
IN India—4.4K—12
ES Spain—971—23
MX Mexico—713—1

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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bańda mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish banda. Doublet of band. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
In which country does Bańda have the most bearers?
Bańda is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled banda.

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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, “Bańda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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