Bayman
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbeɪmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bayman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 772K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 100K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 168K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈570 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, 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)One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bayman is read
(measured from records)Bayman 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.
- English71%
One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish18%
Varlıklı, saygın kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bayman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Bayman | 29 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Bayman | 8 |
| US United States | — | 431 | 1 in 772K | 457 | Bayman | 152 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Bayman | 79 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 927K | — | Bayman | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 609K | — | Bayman | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 476K | — | Bayman | 1 |
| VA Vatican City | #143 | — | — | — | Bayman | 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 2000. 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)- Caroline Louise Baymanb. 1975GB(born 1975)
- Sara Baymanb. 1984GBEnglish netball player
- Henry BaymanTRTurkish scholar
- Emine Özgür BaymanTRTurkish researcher
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 457 | #44,350 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 452 | #50,074 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 431 | #48,901 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Bayman mean, and where does it come from?
- One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bayman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbeɪmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bayman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 565 people named Bayman in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bayman.
- How common is the name Bayman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 431 people named Bayman in 2010, about 1 in 772 thousand residents.
- How common is Bayman compared with other names?
- In Vatican City, Bayman is the 143rd most common surname of 1,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baymanThe 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, “Bayman” — the 143rd most common surname in Vatican City. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.