Bái
loc · Latin script
Meaning: to bow during an act of worship as sign of respect or to show sincerity
Bái is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 35K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 40K
- DKDenmark1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
5,519 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bai in IN India, US United States.
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)to bow during an act of worship as sign of respect or to show sincerity
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bái 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 5,519 | 1 in 240K | 5.5K | Bai | 21 |
| US United States | 3,148 | 1 in 106K | 5.2K | Bai | 26 |
| ES Spain | 525 | 1 in 95K | 525 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 443 | 1 in 478K | 443 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 337 | 1 in 114K | 172 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 211 | 1 in 40K | 211 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 158 | 1 in 35K | 158 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 144 | 1 in 41K | 144 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 122 | 1 in 45K | 122 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 108 | 1 in 94K | 108 | — | 2 |
5,519 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)Bái is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tyz, an occasion where neighbors gather to work on something together
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pag, grandmother; woman of grandparent’s generation (add. or ref.)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Iloko, bow; bowlike device used for fluffing cotton
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kne, female; hen (not used for persons)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 白
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)- Li Baib. 701KGClassical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (701–762)
- Bai Juyib. 772CNChinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)
- Pai Chung-hsib. 1893TWnot in their usual nameChinese military officer and politician (1893-1966)
- Bai Lingb. 1966CNChinese-American actress
- Wu Baib. 1968TWTaiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
- Bianca Baib. 1982TWTaiwanese actress
- Bai Baiheb. 1984CNChinese actress
- Michelle Baib. 1986CNChinese actress
- Bai Jingtingb. 1993CNChinese actor
- Bai Lub. 1994CNChinese actress and model (b. 1994)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bái mean, and where does it come from?
- to bow during an act of worship as sign of respect or to show sincerity Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bái have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Bái, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bai.
- Where is Bái most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bái is densest in Finland — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bái?
- In India, the national register counted 5,519 people named Bái, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A1iThe 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, “Bái”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.