Badea

surname · Latin script

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

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

Badea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 960(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 38K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 64K

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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈22,000 people, est.

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 960 (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Badea 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 Badea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#50≈22,000 est.≈1 in 960—Badea118
ES Spain—1,3251 in 38K1.3KBadea43
IT Italy—≈970 est.≈1 in 64K—Badea36
FR France—≈320 est.≈1 in 210K—Badea1
US United States—2501 in 1.3M328Badea121
FI Finland—741 in 75K74—1
DK Denmark—591 in 99K59——

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Badea is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania, United States, Cuba

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Badéa

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Romania, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bāďěą

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Syria, Romania, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Bade'A

41 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Badea is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, giant granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis)

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

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)

1940196019802000Doina Badea, b. 1940Ioana Badea, b. 1964Pavel Badea, b. 1967Bela Badea, b. 1969Laura Badea-Cârlescu, b. 1970Gabriel Badea-Păun, b. 1973Mircea Badea, b. 1974Ionuț Badea, b. 1975Valentin Badea, b. 1982Alin Badea, b. 1988

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)

FormalStimate domnule Badea,Dear Mr Badea, (English)
InformalSalut Badea,Hi Badea, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Badea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#3,461
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#3,459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020328#65,358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010250#76,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000205#84,968
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—74#16,144
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—59#9,156
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Badea?
A machine transcription gives /badĕa/ (IPA) for Romanian.
In which country does Badea have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Badea in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled badea.
How common is the name Badea?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,325 people named Badea, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
How common is Badea compared with other names?
In Romania, Badea is the 50th most common surname of 78,699 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, “Badea” — the 50th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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