Bâÿ

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bâÿ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”).

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 3.5M(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 4.1Kas Bea
  • NLNetherlands1 in 14Kas Bea

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bâÿ 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.

United States (measured from records)

2,652 named Bea, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ביHebrew(measured from records)
BeaLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled B. 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)

Derivation of Bâÿ: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bâÿ
  1. Middle Englishbaye(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbeġ“berry”(measured from records)
  3. Latinbāca“berry”(measured from records)

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”).

Sources 7

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bâÿ 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.

Where Bâÿ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,652as Bea1 in 125K6.3KB.26
FI Finland1,364as Bea1 in 4.1K1.4K—1
NL Netherlands1,274as Bea1 in 14K1.3K—3
SE Sweden445as Bea1 in 23K445—1
DK Denmark184as Bea1 in 32K1.8K—2
SI Slovenia29as Bea1 in 73K29—2
PL Poland111 in 3.5M29—2

2,652 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling bea. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bâÿ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bay, Băy, Bāÿ, Bày, Bảy

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bâÿ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bâÿ mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 5 other sources.
Is Bâÿ a male or female name?
Bâÿ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Bâÿ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Bea, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bâÿ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bâÿ is densest in Poland — about 1 in 3.5 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bâÿ?
In Poland, the national register counted 11 people named Bâÿ in 2026, about 1 in 3.5 million 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, “Bâÿ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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