# Bacha (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bacha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 779 |
| US rank (2010) | 30,101 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 396,336 people |
| Change since 2000 | +14% (683 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Slovak, Czech and Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Bača (“senior shepherd”); see Baca. * As a Hungarian surname, Americanized from Bacsa, from the placename Baksa, probably also influenced by the above. * As an Islamic surname, from a French-influenced form of Basha (also see Pasha).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bacha in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 81% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 7.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 7.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bacha in Brazil.

## People named Bacha

- Julia Bacha, Brazilian film director

## Similar surnames

Beach, Bach, Beachy, Bash, Bashaw, Bauch, Bache, Baca, Back, Bausch, Basch, Basa.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.