Bakay
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bakay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 54K
- HUHungary≈1 in 90K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Bakay | 43 |
| US United States | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 194 | Bakay | 32 |
| HU Hungary | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Bakay | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | 30 | 1 in 576K | 30 | Bakay | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Bakay | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Bakay | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | Bakay | 6 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Bakay is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, watcher; ambusher; waylayer (especially those watching for anyone passing by from a vantage point)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, the ornate threadfin bream (Nemipterus hexodon)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nándor Bakayb. 1833HUHungarian industrialist, politician (1833-1902)
- Lajos Bakayb. 1880HUHungarian physician, surgeon and university teacher (1880-1959)
- Şefik Bakayb. 1900TRTurkish statesperson (1900–1983)
- Louis Bakayb. 1917SKHungarian neurologist, neurosurgeon (1917–1998)
- Erzsébet Bakayb. 1926HUHungarian textile artist, professor (1926–2017)
- Kornél Bakayb. 1940HUHungarian archaeologist
- Roy A. E. Bakayb. 1949researcher
- Nick Bakayb. 1959USAmerican actor, sportscaster and comedian
- Ihor Bakaib. 1963UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Gönül BakayTRTurkish writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 194 | #99,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 160 | #103,706 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 30 | #40,911 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #74,795 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bakay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Bakay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakay.
- How common is the name Bakay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Bakay in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bakay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakayThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bakay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.