Bahoy
surname · Latin script
Bahoy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GLGreenland1 in 1.3Kas Høy(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 8.6Kas Høy
- IEIreland≈1 in 9Kfew recordsas Hoey
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 Bahoy 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 377 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
9,196 named Hoy, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greenland, as Høy
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hoy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 1 more, Bayo in ES Spain, Høy in DK Denmark and Hoey in IE Ireland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bahoy 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 | — | 9,196as Hoy | 1 in 36K | 9.5K | Hoy | 377 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,353as Bayo | 1 in 11K | 4.4K | Bayo | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 3 | Hoy | 173 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Hoy | 131 |
| AU Australia | #917 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Hoy | 138 |
| DK Denmark | #523 | 681as Høy | 1 in 8.6K | 681 | Høy | 44 |
| IE Ireland | #658 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Hoey | 76 |
| GL Greenland | — | 46as Høy | 1 in 1.3K | 46 | — | 3 |
9,196 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 2000; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)Bahoy 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 hil, witch, sorceress
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
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bahoy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Hoy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bahoy most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Bahoy itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Greenland's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people named Høy.
- How common is the name Bahoy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,196 people named Hoy in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Bahoy compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Bahoy is the 523rd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bahoy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bahoyThe 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, “Bahoy” — the 523rd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.