Bải

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to lengthen

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bải is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • FIFinland1 in 35K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 40K
  • DKDenmark1 in 41K

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)

5,519 people

Record sources
26 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

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.

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)

to lengthen

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Bải 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 Bải is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India5,5191 in 240K5.5KBai21
US United States3,1481 in 106K5.2KBai26
ES Spain5251 in 95K525—4
BR Brazil4431 in 478K443—1
PL Poland3371 in 114K172—1
CH Switzerland2111 in 40K211—2
FI Finland1581 in 35K158—1
DK Denmark1441 in 41K144——
NO Norway1221 in 45K122—6
SE Sweden1081 in 94K108—2

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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Bải is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tyz, to chew

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bải 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 Bải mean, and where does it come from?
to lengthen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Bải a male or female name?
Bải is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Bải have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Bải, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bai.
Where is Bải most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bải 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 Bải?
In India, the national register counted 5,519 people named Bải, 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, “Bải”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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