Släkthistoria för Ba
Ba Vad efternamn betyder
West African (mainly Senegal and Mauritania): Fulani name from the Mandinka adjective ba(a) ‘big great’. Compare Bah 1 see also Balde Muslim: abstracted as a surname from bā a dialect form of Arabic Abu ‘father’ used in compound surnames such as Bā Wazīr and Bā Ṭarafi. Vietnamese (Bá): from the Chinese surname 柏 see Bai Chinese: Mandarin or Cantonese form of the surname 巴: (i) said to be borne by descendants of Fu Xi a legendary king who lived prior to the Xia dynasty (i.e. before 2070 BC ). (ii) from Ba (巴) the name of an ancient state (located in Sichuan province around the city of Chongqing) which was annihilated during the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC ). (iii) when Manchus and Mongolians came from the north to China several hundred years ago many of them adopted the surname Ba. Amerindian (mainly Guatemala; also Bá): Mayan name from ba(h) ‘gopher’.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
