Bandeja

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bandeja is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. In Spanish, recorded as tray, platter (small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried).

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines
  • PTPortugal
  • ESSpain

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tray, platter (small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bandeja is read(measured from records)

Bandeja is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English44%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bandeja in English.

  • Spanish38%

    tray, platter (small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese5.0%

    tray (object on which things are carried)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bandeja under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bandeja mean, and where does it come from?
tray, platter (small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Bandeja?
In the etymology graph, Bind is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bandeja have the most bearers?
Bandeja is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Bandeja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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