Across the world, Bai (白 
, Bai 
, バイ 
, along with others...) is a common gender-neutral first name. The first name Bai is characteristic of Gambia, where it is quite a common epicene name, Kuwait, where it is quite a rare largely girly, but uncommonly masculine name, and Qatar, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in India, China, and Indonesia. Predominantly, Bai is the last name as well as the forename.
Bai is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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| 白 | China |
| Bai | Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China |
| バイ | Japan |
| Бай | Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Ukraine |
| باي | Iran, Turkey |
| באי | Israel |
Bai is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Bai Lao Xifu , the Dream of the Red Chamber character; Bai Yulian , the Jin Ping Mei character; Bai Laiguang , the Jin Ping Mei character and Bai Yutang , the fictional character, The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants.
| bai feng politician (b. 1426) |
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| bai zhong Ming dynasty person CBDB = 199855 (b. 1436) |
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| mamola bai Indian royalty (b. 1715) |
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| rattan bai mother of actress Shobhna Samarth, IN (b. 1890) |
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| xu hong bai Paralympic athlete of China (b. 1901) |
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kasper bai Danish musician (b. 1974) |
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| qiu bai (b. 1937) |
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| yun peng bai botanist (b. 1963) |
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| yan bai computer and electrical engineer, physicist, and academic (b. 1967) |
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| yun bai artist and painter, US (b. 1979) |
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| song bai person, CBDB ID = 407881 |
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| yu bai researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-1707-3081) |
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| yong-jie bai researcher |
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| lu bai researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7091-5965) |
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| peng bai researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0406-6018) |
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