Balde
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: bucket (container) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: DGE, 2024
/ˈbal.dɨ/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Balde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the most common surname. Balde is also written Балде in Cyrillic.
- GWGuinea-Bissau≈1 in 96few records(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 170few records
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.9K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 96 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guinea-Bissau, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Balde in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baldé in FR France.
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.
How to pronounce Balde
- Portuguese:/ˈbal.dɨ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/ˈbalde/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bucket (container)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Balde is read
(measured from records)Balde is one spelling over 4 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.
- French49%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balde in French.
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balde in English.
- Portuguese9.4%
bucket (container)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.7%
bin, bucket
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 the surname Balde is found
(measured from records)Balde 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #169 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | 81 | Balde | 21 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #1 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 96 | 66K | Balde | 23 |
| AO Angola | #488 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Balde | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,856 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Balde | 59 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 226 | Baldé | 3 |
| PT Portugal | #306 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Balde | 44 |
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: A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Balde 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.
In Danish, buttock (each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine plural of baldo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, inflection of baldit:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, inflection of ballen:
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)- Jakob Baldeb. 1604DEGerman scholar (1604-1668)
- Hendrik Baldeb. 1619BEBelgian priest and author, 1619-1690
- Ismailou BaldeGNGuinean anthropologist
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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Balde mean, and where does it come from?
- bucket (container) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Balde?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ˈbal.dɨ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈbalde/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Balde?
- Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Balde in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balde. After it come Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Spain and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Balde?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,856 people named Balde, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Balde compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Balde is the 169th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Balde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baldeThe 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, “Balde” — ranked 23rd in Senegal (DGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.