Bari

loc · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bari is a name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: cidadão oriundo da cidade de Bari; nome ligado à raiz pré-latina baur.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia1 in 987◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2.8K
  • TRTürkiye1 in 3.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈65K ●

across 14 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
323 ●

426K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.3K ◐

Switzerland

Spellings & scripts●

BaruLatin · Indonesian●105K records
বরBengali · Bangla●4.4K records
ବିରOdia · Odia●52 records
เบอะThai · Thai●25 records
ప్రTelugu · Telugu●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Beer in US United States, ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Bir in SY Syria, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 1 more, Baru in ID Indonesia, VN Vietnam and Bor in TR Türkiye, PL Poland.

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●

recorded in Portuguese

cidadão oriundo da cidade de Bari; nome ligado à raiz pré-latina baur

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—105,054447 rec.—listedBaru71
TR Türkiye—44,64716K rec.——Bor48
IN India—41,715310K rec.1 in 32K42KBari127
ZA South Africa#21910,87811K rec.——Beer99
GB United Kingdom—9,4608.8K rec.—7Beer169
US United States—8,25257K rec.1 in 40K9KBeer323
AU Australia—7,9028.1K rec.—2Beer142
BR Brazil—3,059△9 rec.1 in 69K3.1K—4
CH Switzerland—2,572△346 rec.1 in 3.3K2.6KBeer50
AR Argentina—2,378△1 rec.1 in 19K2.4K—2
ES Spain—2,328△341 rec.1 in 21K15KBru30
CA Canada—2,1112.5K rec.—5Beer94

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi82K18%
  • Italian20K4%
  • Bangla1.1K1%
  • French6861%
  • Malay5501%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi81,57418%
Italian20,1194%
Bangla1,1121%
French6861%
Malay5501%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bari is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname125K records spelled Bari36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bary, Baeri, Baery, Bäri, Bärí

  • Bangla surname110K records spelled Bari23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written বাড়ী, Baree, বাড়ি, বারী, বারি

  • a separate name53K records spelled Bari6 spellings in the group

    Also written Bārī, Bāṛī, Barī, Barí, Bäri

  • Portuguese name13K records spelled Bari13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Barí, Bârî, Bâřï, Bąřį, Bāřī

  • French name6.9K records spelled Bari8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Bäri, Bàri, Bãrï, Bârî, Baří

  • Malay surname6.6K records spelled Bari4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Bari'

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bari 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 English, long., people, Africa; prov & town

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Italy

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Arabic, innocent, blameless, guiltless, sound. Comp. Baari‘ ¢ 5b, brilliant; Baari’ ¢,,L, originator

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In ckv, wind

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Sundanese, old, stale, cold (of foods which have stood around a long time), become sour, tainted

    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.

Over time●

020040060080019201940196019802000768 · 1978

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Bari in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1914–2017
Yearrecords
19141
19153
19162
19171
191816
191913
19207
19218
192217
192313
192434
192529
192623
192734
192840
192969
193061
193172
193287
1933104
1934140
1935125
1936123
1937116
1938172
1939170
1940185
1941177
1942173
1943182
1944254
1945233
1946225
1947197
1948265
1949249
1950254
1951272
1952251
1953297
1954344
1955338
1956305
1957311
1958399
1959351
1960474
1961435
1962459
1963402
1964495
1965523
1966488
1967474
1968608
1969503
1970635
1971567
1972592
1973509
1974596
1975724
1976574
1977584
1978768
1979625
1980727
1981625
1982600
1983531
1984510
1985554
1986605
1987589
1988494
1989472
1990358
1991363
1992355
1993329
1994290
1995215
1996134
1997201
199843
19991
20041
200812
200917
201026
201178
201248
201376
201438
201588
20173

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1914–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Alexander Bari, b. 1847Nina Bari, b. 1901Lynn Bari, b. 1913Ruth Aaronson Bari, b. 1917Bari Wood, b. 1936Gina Kolata, b. 1948Judi Bari, b. 1949Andrea Bari, b. 1980Bari Weiss, b. 1984Bari Suzuki, b. 1986

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 63 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Bari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—21K#582
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,058
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#7,858
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#22,663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000920#25,272
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995723—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—498#982
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—415—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020306#7,858
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—304#26,108
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—259#1,526
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—252#13,876

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 450 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bari?
We estimate roughly 65 thousand people bear Bari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Bari have the most bearers?
Bari is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled baru.
How common is Bari compared with other names?
In South Africa, Bari is the 219th most common surname of 302,267 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Bari mean?
Recorded meaning: cidadão oriundo da cidade de Bari; nome ligado à raiz pré-latina baur
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bari” — the 219th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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