Balode
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Baloda - ārstniecības augs sprigane, tarkšķene
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Balode is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Latvia it is the 75th most common surname.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 124K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Baloda - ārstniecības augs sprigane, tarkšķene
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balode 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 | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 597K | 5 | Balode | 17 |
| LV Latvia | #75 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Balode | 43 |
| NO Norway | — | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | Balode | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Balode | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Balode | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18 | 1 in 567K | 18 | Balode | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | Balode | 3 |
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: the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Balode is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Balanda
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Balodis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Laimutė Baluodėb. 1954LVnot in their usual nameLatvian scientist
- Anita Stukāneb. 1954LVnot in their usual nameLatvian high jumper
- Sarmīte Balodeb. 1956LVmakeup artist (born 1956)
- Laila Balodeb. 1959LVLatvian painter
- Agita Balodeb. 1962LVLatvian painter
- Zane Balodeb. 1976LV(1976) translator. Born in Riga, Latvia
- Ingmāra Balodeb. 1981LVLatvian poet and translator (born 1981)
- Zane Balodeb. 1983LV(1983) painter. Born in Riga, Latvia
- Lauma Balodeb. 1984LVLatvian stage actress
- Terēze Balodeb. 1994LVbadminton 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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #27,997 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18 | #26,929 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #43,017 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Balode mean?
- Recorded meaning: Baloda - ārstniecības augs sprigane, tarkšķene
- In which country does Balode have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Balode in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balode.
- How common is the name Balode?
- In Norway, the national register counted 44 people named Balode, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
- How common is Balode compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Balode is the 75th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balodeThe 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, “Balode” — the 75th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.