Bí
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pumpkin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 127K
- USUnited States1 in 231K
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 Bí itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bi in VN Vietnam, US United States.
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)
pumpkin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bí 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #82 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Bi | 81 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,142as Pi | 1 in 23K | 2.1K | — | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,438 | 1 in 231K | 2.5K | Bi | 53 |
| BR Brazil | — | 622as Pi | 1 in 340K | 622 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 589as Pi | 1 in 5.8K | 589 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 412as Pi | 1 in 110K | 412 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 44 | 1 in 127K | 59 | — | 1 |
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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bí is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sga, second/third-person singular habitual present indicative conjunct of at·tá
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nv, third person singular and dual pronoun: he, she, it; they two
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荸
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbj, to (dative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, white hair
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Yuan Mib. 510not in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 181767
- Li Mib. 722not in their usual nameChinese chancellor
- Zhang Bib. 930Chinese poet
- Luo Bib. 1131Song historian (1131–1189)
- Fang Mib. 1423not in their usual namepolitician
- Song BiSong dynasty person (CBDB = 3800)
- Xu Minot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 229844
- Zhang Minot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 130400
- Zhang Minot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 153753
- He Minot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 324977
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bí mean, and where does it come from?
- pumpkin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bí a male or female name?
- Bí 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 Bí have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Bí in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bi.
- How common is the name Bí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,438 people named Bí in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Bí compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Bí is the 82nd most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bí?
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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%ADThe 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, “Bí” — the 82nd most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.