Bahati
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bahati is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tanzania. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: fortune, luck (something that happens to someone by chance, good or bad).
- TZTanzania1 in 42K◐
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈309 ●
- Sources
- 14 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 7 countries
393 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
fortune, luck (something that happens to someone by chance, good or bad)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | 314 | 223 rec. | — | 3 | Bahati | 14 |
| US United States | 279△ | 122 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 447 | Bahati | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | — | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | 8 | 7 rec. | — | 1 | Bahati | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | — | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 7△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 796K | 41 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Bahati | 3 |
| PA Panama | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Bahati | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | — | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 112 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili20K71%
- English2.6K9%
- French1.3K5%
- Hindi8263%
- Russian6432%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 20,092 | 71% |
| English | 2,581 | 9% |
| French | 1,324 | 5% |
| Hindi | 826 | 3% |
| Russian | 643 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bahati 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.
Luck
as a nameThe book of African names
My fortune is good
as a nameThe book of African names
In Swahili, Swahili: 'luck, fortune'.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Swahili, luck; prosperity in the family
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Luck, fortune.
as a nameThe African book of names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 5 |
YT INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) — 13 years between 2012–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bahati Ali Abeidb. 1967TZMember of Parliament of Tanzania
- Bahati Gracenational beauty pagent winner
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●
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bahati?
- We estimate roughly 309 people bear Bahati (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bahati have the most bearers?
- Bahati is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled bahati.
- Is Bahati a male or female name?
- Bahati is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Bahati mean?
- Recorded meaning: fortune, luck (something that happens to someone by chance, good or bad)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bahati”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.