Bade
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from a medieval personal name descended from Old English Badda, perhaps an abbreviated form of names beginning beadu ‘battle’; or from a North Germanic name based on badu ‘battle’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bade is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Bade is also written บัด in Thai and ბუდუ in Georgian.
- ALAlbania1 in 45K(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 61K
- SYSyria≈1 in 310Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bade itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Budu, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bade in other scripts: Latin, Thai and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Budu in IN India, US United States, GE Georgia and 1 more and บอดี้ in TH Thailand.
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 a medieval personal name descended from Old English Badda, perhaps an abbreviated form of names beginning beadu ‘battle’; or from a North Germanic name based on badu ‘battle’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bade is read
(measured from records)Bade 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.
- English26%
from a medieval personal name descended from Old English Badda, perhaps an abbreviated form of names beginning beadu ‘battle’; or from a North Germanic name based on badu ‘battle’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from OE Bada; cf. BADCOCK; first attested Bado 1066 DB (Db)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
given name Edith (OE Eadgyb ‘prosperity battle’). 2. from a ME short form of Adam, common esp. in Scotland and N England.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
simple past of bid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Bado 1066 DB (Db); Bictricus Bade 1066 Winton (Ha). OE Bada. cf. BADCOCK.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Hindi14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bade in Hindi.
- German7.7%
nickname; likely from body-part word, exact form unclear
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)Bade 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 10K | Budu | 105 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 159K | listed | Budu | 16 |
| US United States | — | 609as Bodi | 1 in 546K | 2.5K | Budu | 96 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 435 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 181K | register #313,635 | บอดี้ | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 333as Bodi | 1 in 52K | 308 | — | 3 |
| GE Georgia | #825 | 160as ბუდუ | 1 in 25K | 160 | Budu | 10 |
| AL Albania | — | 68 | 1 in 45K | 68 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)- Jodocus Badiusb. 1462BEnot in their usual nameFlemish pioneer of printing
- Jean-Pierre Badeb. 1960FRFrench footballer
- Bade İşcilb. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bade mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval personal name descended from Old English Badda, perhaps an abbreviated form of names beginning beadu ‘battle’; or from a North Germanic name based on badu ‘battle’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people named Bade?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Budu in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, United States, Côte d’Ivoire and Thailand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bade most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bade is densest in Albania — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bade?
- In Albania, the national register counted 68 people named Bade, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Bade compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Bade is the 825th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/badeThe 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, “Bade” — ranked 971st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.