Bayne
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbeɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bayne is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Perths and Fife; also Kent. see Bain .
- CACanada
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Perths and Fife; also Kent. see Bain .
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Bayne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, An English name occasionally used as a synonym of Bane. As a Scottish name Bayne also derives from the adjective bán, white
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Alexander Bayneb. 1684GBBritish academic
- Thomas McKee Bayneb. 1836USUnion United States Army officer and politician
- Howard R. Bayneb. 1851USAmerican lawyer, politician and historian (1851–1933)
- Beverly Bayneb. 1894USAmerican actress (1894–1982)
- Howard Bayneb. 1942USAmerican basketball player
- Lawrence Bayneb. 1960CACanadian actor
- Fiona Bayneb. 1966GBScottish and British female curler
- Gregory Bayneb. 1972ZASouth African rower
- Trevor Bayneb. 1991USAmerican racing driver
- Anne Baynefirst wife of Allan Ramsay
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 34 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #6,044 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #75,310 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 19 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 18 | — |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 17 | #206 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #58,550 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,975 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,854 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 10 | #615 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Bayne mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Perths and Fife; also Kent. see Bain . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Bayne?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbeɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bayne have the most bearers?
- Bayne is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Bayne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayneThe 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, “Bayne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.