Bãÿ
surname · Latin script
Bãÿ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India 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”).
- DKDenmark1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 12K
- BEBelgium1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
17,011 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)- Middle Englishbaye(measured from records)
- Old Englishbeġ“berry”(measured from records)
- 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”).
Cited for this meaning 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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bãÿ is found
(measured from records)Bãÿ 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 | 17,011 | 1 in 78K | 17K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 6,350 | 1 in 52K | 6.3K | — | 47 |
| DK Denmark | 1,837 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.8K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 994 | 1 in 213K | 994 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 918 | 1 in 50K | 918 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 466 | 1 in 12K | 466 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 452 | 1 in 26K | 452 | — | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | 258 | 1 in 33K | 258 | — | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 88 | 1 in 38K | 88 | — | — |
17,011 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Bãÿ 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bãÿ?
- In India, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Bãÿ, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Denmark, Brazil and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bãÿ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bãÿ is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bãÿ?
- In India, the national register counted 17,011 people named Bãÿ, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A3%C3%BFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bãÿ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.