Baldi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Baldi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: masculine plural of baldo.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.1K
- ARArgentina1 in 23K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
masculine plural of baldo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baldi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #334 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | listed | Baldi | 139 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,967 | 1 in 71K | 3K | Baldi | 95 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,964 | 1 in 23K | 2K | Baldi | 68 |
| US United States | — | 1,275 | 1 in 261K | 1.3K | Baldi | 117 |
| FR France | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 105 | Baldi | 167 |
| UY Uruguay | #819 | 760 | 1 in 4.5K | 760 | Baldi | 25 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Baldi | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | #463 | 305 | 1 in 17K | 305 | Baldi | 33 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Baldi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Baldo; dal germanico bald, ‘audace, coraggioso’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do germ. balth/baltha, corajoso; forma familiar de Baldus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In se, second-person dual imperative of baldit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, pail, galvanized iron bucket
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, pail; fetch water in a pail
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Baldo Baldib. 1888ITItalian fencer (1888-1961)
- Gastone Baldib. 1901ITItalian footballer (1901-1971)
- Marcello Baldib. 1923ITItalian filmmaker (1923–2008)
- Ferdinando Baldib. 1927ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1917–2007)
- Gian Vittorio Baldib. 1930ITItalian film director (1930–2015)
- Ubaldesco Baldib. 1944ITItalian sport shooter (1944–1991)
- Mauro Baldib. 1954ITItalian racing driver
- Aleandro Baldib. 1959ITItalian singer-songwriter
- Dario Baldib. 1976ITItalian film director
- Rachele Baldib. 1994ITItalian association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,449 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,752 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 760 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 305 | #809 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 131 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 125 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 105 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Baldi mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine plural of baldo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Baldi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Baldi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baldi.
- Where is Baldi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baldi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Baldi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,967 people named Baldi, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Baldi compared with other names?
- In Italy, Baldi is the 334th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baldiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Baldi” — the 334th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.