Baĭ
surname · Latin script
Baĭ 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’.
- FIFinland1 in 35K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 95K
- DKDenmark1 in 3.2Kas Bay
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 Baĭ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
17,011 named Bay
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bai in IN India, PL Poland, Бай in UA Ukraine, Pai in US United States and Пай in FI Finland.
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’.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Wiktionary
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baĭ 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 | 17,011as Bay | 1 in 78K | 17K | Bai | 8 |
| US United States | 6,350as Bay | 1 in 52K | 6.3K | Pai | 19 |
| PL Poland | 2,554as Baj | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Bai | 15 |
| DK Denmark | 1,837as Bay | 1 in 3.2K | 1.8K | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Бай | 34 |
| NO Norway | 936as By | 1 in 5.8K | 936 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 525 | 1 in 95K | 525 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 452as Bay | 1 in 26K | 452 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 158 | 1 in 35K | 158 | Пай | 1 |
17,011 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bay. 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Baĭ 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 Baĭ have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Bay, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Baĭ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baĭ 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 Baĭ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 525 people named Baĭ, about 1 in 95 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, “Baĭ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.