Bayat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stale, not fresh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bayat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 84K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
stale, not fresh
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bayat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #278 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 2 | Bayat | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | #898 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Bayat | 61 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Bayat | 53 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Bayat | 18 |
| US United States | — | 403 | 1 in 825K | 541 | Bayat | 87 |
| SE Sweden | — | 402 | 1 in 25K | 402 | Bayat | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 192 | 1 in 28K | 192 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 156 | 1 in 38K | 156 | — | — |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bayat 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 ivb, someone goes to meet someone; two people (may) meet together
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, worn out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, weight
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)
- Morteza Gholi Bayatb. 1882IRIranian politician (1882-1955)
- Asadollah Bayat-Zanjanib. 1941IRIranian grand ayatollah
- Babak Bayatb. 1946IRIranian composer (1946–2006)
- Asef Bayatb. 1954IRIranian sociologist
- Ehsan Bayatb. 1963USAfghan businessman
- Mogi Bayatb. 1974IRIranian-French businessperson (b. 1974)
- Sareh Bayatb. 1979IRIranian actress
- Zeynep Tuğçe Bayatb. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Nilofar Bayatb. 1990AFAfghan lawyer and wheelchair basketball player
- Crystal Bayatb. 1997AFAfghan human rights activist
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 541 | #43,067 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 403 | #51,610 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 402 | #2,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 271 | #67,936 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 192 | #8,236 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 156 | #3,398 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #36 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Bayat mean, and where does it come from?
- stale, not fresh Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bayat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Bayat in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bayat.
- How common is the name Bayat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 403 people named Bayat in 2010, about 1 in 825 thousand residents.
- How common is Bayat compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Bayat is the 278th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bayat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayatThe 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, “Bayat” — the 278th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.