Baye
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of bay
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 491K(measured from records)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 3.9K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 18K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete form of bay.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baye 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #958 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 15 | Baye | 15 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 452 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Baye | 22 |
| US United States | — | 677 | 1 in 491K | 739 | Baye | 191 |
| FR France | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 111K | 64 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 101 | 1 in 116K | 101 | Baye | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Baye | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
Baye 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.
Straightforward
as a nameThe book of African names
In Cebuano, female animal or plant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, be lost
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Haitian Creole, to give
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)
- Paulette del Bayeb. 1877CUfrench-Cuban stage and film actress
- Nathalie Bayeb. 1948FRFrench actress (1948–2026)
- Michael Bayeb. 1958USAmerican economist
- Orel Bayeb. 2004ILIsraeli association footballer
- Kaleab Bayeresearcher
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 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 138 | #33,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 104 | #33,953 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 15 | #56 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Baye mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of bay. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Baye?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Baye have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Baye in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baye.
- How common is the name Baye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 677 people named Baye in 2010, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.
- How common is Baye compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Baye is the 958th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayeThe 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, “Baye” — the 958th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.