Bàï
surname · Latin script
Bàï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘White’. Li Bai (701-762) was a famous Tang poet. This name is also pronounced ‘Bo’. Baozhai ° ‘Precious hairpin’.
- USUnited States1 in 106K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 240K
- FIFinland1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
5,519 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bai in IN India, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘White’. Li Bai (701-762) was a famous Tang poet. This name is also pronounced ‘Bo’. Baozhai ° ‘Precious hairpin’.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Wiktionary
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bàï counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 5,519 | 1 in 240K | 5.5K | Bai | 90 |
| US United States | 3,148 | 1 in 106K | 5.2K | Bai | 299 |
| ES Spain | 525 | 1 in 95K | 525 | Bai | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 443 | 1 in 478K | 443 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 337 | 1 in 114K | 172 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 211 | 1 in 40K | 211 | Bai | 17 |
| FI Finland | 158 | 1 in 35K | 158 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 144 | 1 in 41K | 144 | Bai | 38 |
| NO Norway | 122 | 1 in 45K | 122 | Bai | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 108 | 1 in 94K | 108 | Bai | 16 |
5,519 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bàï mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘White’. Li Bai (701-762) was a famous Tang poet. This name is also pronounced ‘Bo’. Baozhai ° ‘Precious hairpin’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Bàï have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Bàï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bai.
- Where is Bàï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bàï is densest in Finland — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bàï?
- In India, the national register counted 5,519 people named Bàï, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bàï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.