Balde
surname · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Balde is a surname, most frequently recorded in Guinea-Bissau, where it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: bucket (container).
- GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 15◐
- PTPortugal1 in 4.3K
- ESSpain1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 66 ●
- 1 in 10K ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
7.9K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Baldé in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
bucket (container)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #2 | 112,306 | 120 rec. | — | 66K | Balde | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,856△ | 2K rec. | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Balde | 46 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,521 | 2K rec. | — | — | Balde | 16 |
| PT Portugal | #307 | 1,978 | 791 rec. | — | — | Balde | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 811△ | 158 rec. | 1 in 261K | 811 | Balde | 39 |
| US United States | — | 760 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 438K | 1.8K | Balde | 66 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 331 | 124 rec. | — | — | Balde | 38 |
| SN Senegal | #142 | 319 | 112 rec. | — | 81 | Balde | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 318△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 26K | 318 | — | 5 |
| FR France | — | 226△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 300K | 226 | — | 3 |
| MX Mexico | — | 159 | 225 rec. | — | — | Balde | 18 |
| EG Egypt | — | 129 | 101 rec. | — | — | Balde | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese117K66%
- French20K12%
- Spanish16K9%
- English6.2K3%
- Catalan4.9K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 116,946 | 66% |
| French | 20,460 | 12% |
| Spanish | 16,392 | 9% |
| English | 6,179 | 3% |
| Catalan | 4,856 | 3% |
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●
Balde 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 Spanish, bin, bucket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 8 |
| 1901 | 9 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1921 | 13 |
| 1931 | 11 |
| 1941 | 13 |
| 1951 | 19 |
| 1961 | 19 |
| 1971 | 66 |
| 1981 | 149 |
| 1991 | 226 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jakob Baldeb. 1604DEGerman scholar (1604-1668)
- Hendrik Baldeb. 1619BEBelgian priest and author, 1619-1690
- Amadou Diouldé Baldéb. 1990GNGuinean writer
- Ismailou BaldeGNGuinean anthropologist
- Mamadou Dian BaldeDElawyer and UN diplomat
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 25 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Balde?
- We estimate roughly 7.5 thousand people bear Balde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Balde have the most bearers?
- Balde is most frequently recorded in Guinea-Bissau, where it is most often spelled balde.
- How common is Balde compared with other names?
- In Guinea-Bissau, Balde is the 2nd most common surname of 212 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Balde mean?
- Recorded meaning: bucket (container)
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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, “Balde” — the 2nd most common surname in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.