# Badie (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/badie/  
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 | Arabic |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 579 |
| US rank (2010) | 38,265 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 533,239 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.0% (531 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Arabic بديع (badīʕ, “marvelous, wonderful”), a surname predominantly found in Iran and Egypt. * Borrowed from French Badié, an Occitan occupational surname for a janitor.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Badie 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) | 23% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 66% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Two or more races | 6.6% |

## Similar surnames

Boddie, Bodie, Bade, Bate, Batie, Badawi, Boyd, Booth, Beatty, Beaty, Bethea, Beattie.

## 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.