Mbayo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mbɑjɔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mbayo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 28K
- AOAngola≈1 in 96K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sierra Leone, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mbayo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Mbayo | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Mbayo | 12 |
| AO Angola | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Mbayo | 3 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 4 | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Mbayo | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables. 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)
Mbayo 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 maz, rebozo
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables | 2012 | 4 | #21 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates | 2012 | 4 | #21 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates | 2018 | 2 | #32 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Mbayo?
- A machine transcription gives /mbɑjɔ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Mbayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Mbayo in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mbayo.
- How common is the name Mbayo?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 15 people named Mbayo in 2024, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mbayo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mbayoThe 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, “Mbayo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.