Bayard
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a solid type of stretcher for carrying heavy loads
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bajaʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bayard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 13K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 43K
- SESweden1 in 86K
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)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,556 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr baiart, baiard ‘bay-coloured’; byname for a bay horse or a proud/reckless person; possibly occupational from hand-barrow; first attested Ralph baird (baiart) 1086 InqEl (Herts)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bayard is read(measured from records)
Bayard is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French52%
a solid type of stretcher for carrying heavy loads
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
soit de (Le) Bayard, nom de plusieurs localités de France, ou de l’ancien français baiart ‘de couleur baie’.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English39%
from OFr baiart, baiard ‘bay-coloured’; byname for a bay horse or a proud/reckless person; possibly occupational from hand-barrow; first attested Ralph baird (baiart) 1086 InqEl (Herts)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A bay horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Bayard, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bayard 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 | 1,556 | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Bayard | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 642 | 1 in 13K | 642 | Bayard | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 271 | 1 in 43K | 271 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 119 | 1 in 86K | 119 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 28 | 1 in 1.8M | 28 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
1,556 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Bubenheim Bayardb. 1738USAmerican politician (1738–1807); mayor of New Brunswick
- James A. Bayardb. 1767USAmerican politician (1767-1815)
- Richard H. Bayardb. 1796USAmerican judge (1796-1868)
- James A. Bayard Jr.b. 1799USAmerican politician (1799-1880)
- Hippolyte Bayardb. 1801FRFrench photographer (1801–1887)
- Thomas F. Bayardb. 1828USAmerican lawyer, politician and diplomat (1828–1898)
- E. Bayardb. 1837FRFrench artist (1837-1891)
- Thomas F. Bayardb. 1868USAmerican politician (1868-1942)
- Pierre Bayardb. 1954FRFrench writer
- Louis Bayardb. 1963USAmerican novelist (1963-)
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 35 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,483 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,843 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 642 | #1,971 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 271 | #6,153 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 266 | #6,562 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 119 | #6,300 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,269 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #65,927 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bayard?
- A machine transcription gives /bajaʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- Where does the name Bayard come from?
- from OFr baiart, baiard ‘bay-coloured’; byname for a bay horse or a proud/reckless person; possibly occupational from hand-barrow; first attested Ralph baird (baiart) 1086 InqEl (Herts) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How common is the name Bayard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,556 people named Bayard in 2010, about 1 in 214 thousand residents.
- What does the name Bayard mean?
- In French, a solid type of stretcher for carrying heavy loads
- In which country does Bayard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Bayard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bayard.
- Where is Bayard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bayard is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayardThe 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, “Bayard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.