Bayo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bay (of a horse)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bayo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 26K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 964
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 964 (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barangay of Calbayog, Samar, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bayo is read(measured from records)
Bayo is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish39%
bay (of a horse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English32%
A barangay of Calbayog, Samar, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bayo in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bayo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Bayo | 20 |
| GN Guinea | #151 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 964 | 2 | Bayo | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 1 | Bayo | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,353 | 1 in 11K | 4.4K | Bayo | 119 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Bayo | 19 |
| SN Senegal | #334 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 2 | Bayo | 11 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1.2K | Bayo | 9 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
Bayo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
There is joy
as a nameThe book of African names
Mallorca
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Rejoice with me;
as a nameThe African book of names
In kne, pounding, husking (with mortar and pestle, of rice and coffee or others)
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)
- Alberto Bayob. 1892CUCuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (1892-1967)
- Pere Pi-Sunyer i Bayob. 1918ESSpanish politician and economist (1918-2001)
- María Bayob. 1961ESSpanish soprano
- Chimo Bayob. 1961ESSpanish musician
- Amnaay Zebedayo Bayob. 1976TZAthletics (sport) competitor
- Getuli Bayob. 1980TZTanzanian marathon runner
- Ariadna Gayab. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress and model
- Dellafuenteb. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Mohamed Bayob. 1998FRGuinean and French association football player
- Fahad Bayob. 1998UGassociation football player
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 41 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.4K | #1,212 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.4K | #1,212 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.2K | #440 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #16 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #69 |
| GN Guinea | Patronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Bayo come from?
- A barangay of Calbayog, Samar, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Bayo mean?
- In Spanish, bay (of a horse)
- In which country does Bayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Bayo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bayo.
- How common is the name Bayo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,353 people named Bayo, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Bayo compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Bayo is the 151st most common surname of 427 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayoThe 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, “Bayo” — the 151st most common surname in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.