Badawi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nomad

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bædəwi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Badawi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 13K
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 81K

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.

Sudan (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,900 people, est.

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Sudan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nomad

Sources 1

  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Badawi 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.

Where Badawi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SD Sudan—≈9,900 est.≈1 in 4.6K4Badawi32
EG Egypt—≈8,100 est.≈1 in 13K—Badawi97
SY Syria#476≈3,500 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Badawi21
SA Saudi Arabia—≈3,400 est.≈1 in 10K—Badawi75
ID Indonesia—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 81K—Badawi77
LB Lebanon#988≈590 est.≈1 in 9.3K—Badawi35
US United States—5671 in 587K821Badawi163

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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Badawi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Badawï, Ḃădăwi, Badawī, Băďãwì

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Badawī

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Bãdãwi

  • Russian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine, Syria

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Бадави, Badavi, Бадавй

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Badaui, Бадауи

  • Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Badawī

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Ahmed Ahmed Badawi, b. 1905Ahmed Badawi, b. 1927Badawī, ʿAbduh, b. 1927Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, b. 1939Jamal Badawi, b. 1939Zaizafon Badawy, b. 1940Ibrahim Elbadawi, b. 1954Zeinab Badawi, b. 1959Anas Badawi, b. 1997

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)

FormalDear Badawi,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Badawi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020821#30,466
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010567#38,902
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000400#49,366
SD SudanWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—4#6
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

What does the name Badawi mean, and where does it come from?
nomad Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
How do you pronounce Badawi?
A machine transcription gives /bædəwi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Badawi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Badawi in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled badawi.
How common is the name Badawi?
In the United States, the national register counted 567 people named Badawi in 2010, about 1 in 587 thousand residents.
How common is Badawi compared with other names?
In Syria, Badawi is the 476th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Badawi” — the 476th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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