Bî
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bî is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short for Bitrus (“Peter”).
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 151K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 127K
- DKDenmark1 in 202K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
1,438 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bi in US United States, MA Morocco and Bï in DZ Algeria.
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)
Short for Bitrus (“Peter”).
Sources 4
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- YorùbáName Dictionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bî 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,438 | 1 in 231K | 2.5K | Bi | 31 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Bï | 10 |
| ES Spain | 134 | 1 in 373K | 134 | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 94 | 1 in 2.3M | 94 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Bi | 16 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Bî | 8 |
| FI Finland | 44 | 1 in 127K | 44 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 29 | 1 in 202K | 29 | — | — |
1,438 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Bî 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 Kurdish, willow
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bî mean, and where does it come from?
- Short for Bitrus (“Peter”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1) and 2 other sources.
- Is Bî a male or female name?
- Bî 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 Bî have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Bî, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bi.
- Where is Bî most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bî is densest in Finland — about 1 in 127 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,438 people named Bî in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bî?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%AEThe 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, “Bî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.