Banyai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bəniaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banyai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 855K(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 30K
- RORomania≈1 in 41K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, 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 across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Banyai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Banyai | 9 |
| US United States | 389 | 1 in 855K | 389 | Banyai | 125 |
| HU Hungary | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Banyai | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 853K | — | Banyai | 34 |
| ES Spain | 64 | 1 in 781K | 64 | Banyai | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 715K | — | Banyai | 25 |
| AT Austria | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Banyai | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 3 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 389 | #53,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 388 | #56,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 383 | #51,119 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 64 | #37,778 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 64 | #37,368 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,040 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Banyai?
- A machine transcription gives /bəniaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Banyai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 520 people named Banyai in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banyai.
- How common is the name Banyai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 389 people named Banyai in 2010, about 1 in 855 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/banyaiThe 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, “Banyai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.