Bayon
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baʝon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bayon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In India it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Bayón.
- ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 1.7Kas Bai
- USUnited States1 in 12Kas Bui
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bayon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #257 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈820,000 named Bai, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bai in IN India, PK Pakistan, CN China and 1 more.
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Bayón.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bayon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈820,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Bai | 100 |
| US United States | — | 28,919as Bui | 1 in 12K | 35K | Bayon | 176 |
| BD Bangladesh | #366 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Bai | 13 |
| IN India | #42 | 17,011as Bay | 1 in 78K | 17K | Bai | 134 |
| PK Pakistan | #434 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Bai | 31 |
| NO Norway | — | 4,774as Bye | 1 in 1.1K | 4.8K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | #828 | 4,747 | 1 in 11K | 4.7K | Bayon | 115 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 7K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,837as Bay | 1 in 3.2K | 11K | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bayon 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 cbk, large bag made from woven buri palm leaves
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, statement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rhg, brinjal
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)
- Enrico Bayonb. 1876ITItalian physician and entomologist
- Hector Bayonb. 1885ITItalian association football player
- Luis Bayón Herrerab. 1889ESSpanish film director
- Costanza Bayonb. 1899(born 1899)
- Ignacio Bayón Marinéb. 1944ESSpanish politician, businessperson and lawyer (1944–2024)
- Chrystel Bayonb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Ludovic Bayonb. 1975FRFrench politician
- Javier Bayonb. 1980ESFilm music composer
- Oliver Rayonb. 1983MXnot in their usual nameMexican film actor
- Madeleine Bayonb. 1997PTFrench gymnast and high diver
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.7K | #1,110 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.7K | #1,110 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #3,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 563 | #41,648 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 526 | #41,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 412 | #48,196 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Bayon mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Bayón. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bayon?
- A machine transcription gives /baʝon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Bayon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 819 thousand people named Bai in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bayon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bayon is densest in Spain — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bayon?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,747 people named Bayon, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Bayon compared with other names?
- In India, Bayon is the 42nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bayon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayonThe 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, “Bayon” — the 42nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.