Bagby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Bagby’, Yorkshire, from Baggi’s farmstead; perhaps a different form of Begbie
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbæɡbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bagby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
5,542 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘person from Bagby’, Yorkshire, from Baggi’s farmstead; perhaps a different form of Begbie
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bagby 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 | 5,542 | 1 in 60K | 5.6K | Bagby | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Bagby | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Bagby | 1 |
5,542 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; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 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)
Bagby is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Bagby, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Robert de Bagby 1327 SRY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Robert de Bagby 1327 SRY; John de Bagby 1362 AssY. From Bagby (NRY).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A placename:
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)
- Arthur P. Bagbyb. 1794USAmerican politician (1794-1858)
- John C. Bagbyb. 1819USAmerican politician (1819-1896)
- Oliver Bagbyb. 1893BRBrazilian physician
- Aaron Marc Steinb. 1906USnot in their usual namenovelist (1906-1985)
- George Bagbyb. 1937USAmerican politician
- Benjamin Bagbyb. 1950USAmerican singer, composer, and harpist
- Rachel Bagbyb. 1956USperformance artist (born 1956)
- Larry Bagbyb. 1974USAmerican actor
- Lamont Bagbyb. 1976USAmerican Democratic politician from Virginia
- Devon Bagbyb. 1998USAmerican actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,327 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Bagby mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Bagby’, Yorkshire, from Baggi’s farmstead; perhaps a different form of Begbie Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bagby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbæɡbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bagby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Bagby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bagby.
- Where is Bagby most common?
- Bagby is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bagby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,542 people named Bagby in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bagbyThe 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, “Bagby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.