Bâî
surname · Latin script
Bâî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In India it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: ‘White’. Li Bai (701-762) was a famous Tang poet. This name is also pronounced ‘Bo’. Baozhai ° ‘Precious hairpin’.
- CNChina≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 12Kas Bui
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bâî itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #257 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈820,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bai in IN India, PK Pakistan, CN China and 1 more and Bayon in US United States.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bâî 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈820,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Bai | 100 |
| US United States | — | 28,919as Bui | 1 in 12K | 35K | Bayon | 176 |
| BD Bangladesh | #366 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Bai | 13 |
| IN India | #42 | 17,011as Bay | 1 in 78K | 17K | Bai | 134 |
| PK Pakistan | #434 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Bai | 31 |
| NO Norway | — | 4,774as Bye | 1 in 1.1K | 4.8K | — | 4 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 7K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,837as Bay | 1 in 3.2K | 11K | — | 1 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 Bâî 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 Bâî have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 819 thousand people named Bâî in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bai.
- How common is the name Bâî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,919 people named Bui in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Bâî compared with other names?
- In India, Bâî is the 42nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Bâî” — the 42nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.