Bia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: beer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/biɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 69K
- MZMozambique≈1 in 26K
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of Bureau of Indian Affairs (a U.S. government federal agency for dealing with Native Amerindians).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bia is read(measured from records)
Bia is one spelling over 2 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.
- Portuguese64%
beer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
Initialism of Bureau of Indian Affairs (a U.S. government federal agency for dealing with Native Amerindians).
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bia 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.
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Bia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
home, environment
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Home.
as a nameThe African book of names
In cdo, to take captive, to tuck up, to rob, to carry off and keep, as prisoners
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In dag, child. [bidib’ga, masculine form, bipuy’inga, feminine form.]
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Bia Sarasinib. 1949ITItalian journalist, writer and radio presenter
- Bia Seidlb. 1961BRactress
- Bïa Kriegerb. 1967BRBrazilian musician
- Bia Cavassab. 1969BRBrazilian politician
- Bia Santosb. 1996BREntrepreneur and founder of Barkus Educational
- Bia Salgadocostume designer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,826 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.3K | #5,451 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 458 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #3,826 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 3 | #1,838 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #2,144 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Bia mean?
- In Portuguese, beer
- How do you pronounce Bia?
- A machine transcription gives /biɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Where does the name Bia come from?
- Initialism of Bureau of Indian Affairs (a U.S. government federal agency for dealing with Native Amerindians). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bia a male or female name?
- Bia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Bia?
- In the etymology graph, Beatriz, Beatrice and Bea are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Bia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,073 people named Bia in 2022, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Bia compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Bia is the 421st most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Bia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Bia in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bia.
What do you want to know about Bia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/biaThe 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, “Bia” — the 421st most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.