Given name & surname
Balaj
Balaj is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in Czech, Romanian, Albanian, and Slovak.
Original HungarianBalázs
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Balaj through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 245 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Balaj’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Balaj as a surname was borrowed from the Hungarian form Balázs.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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