Bacus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Cebuano
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbækɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bacus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 518K
- GYGuyana1 in 68K
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)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Cebuano.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bacus 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 | #537 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Bacus | 72 |
| US United States | — | 642 | 1 in 518K | 726 | Bacus | 187 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Bacus | 13 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 495K | — | Bacus | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 531K | 13 | — | — |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Bacus | 10 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Bacus | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | 2 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Bacus | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dakota Bacusb. 1991USAmerican baseball player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 726 | #33,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 642 | #35,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 628 | #34,150 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 11 | #614 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bacus mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Cebuano. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bacus?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbækɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bacus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Bacus in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bacus.
- How common is the name Bacus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 642 people named Bacus in 2010, about 1 in 518 thousand residents.
- How common is Bacus compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Bacus is the 537th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bacusThe 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, “Bacus” — the 537th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.