Bie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of black identity extremist
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 89K
- NONorway1 in 14K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of black identity extremist.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bie 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 | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Bie | 15 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | listed | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | #444 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 11 | Bie | 96 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Bie | 39 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,116 | 1 in 190K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Bie | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 386 | 1 in 14K | 386 | Bie | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 322 | 1 in 18K | 322 | — | 2 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Bie 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 Romanian, . Bie f., ar. (Fart) ; Biescu (Puc) ; Biesti s. Bihol v. B iv ol 2. Biharea Bihor v. Vif or 4. Bij /oiu, -u v. B e j 8.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In cdo, ding We Be Be Bil bt A Be 1 A to seize by the wrist, mezt., angry, urgent
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, (ig) voluntary contributions, extreme joy gives rise to sorrow
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In dag, to seal by besmearing. [O bie o pupuru. He seals his granary.]
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In cdo, to detain, to put obstacles in the way of departure
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Bie Zhijieb. 1150Song dynasty person CBDB = 41819
- Bie Shib. 1151Song dynasty person CBDB = 41818
- Bie Wenxib. 1758Qing dynasty person CBDB = 78655
- Oscar Bieb. 1864PLGerman art historian and publicist (1864–1938)
- Bie Tingfangb. 1883CNNational Revolutionary Army general
- Ferdinand Bieb. 1888NOathletics competitor (1888-1961)
- Jesper Bieb. 1920badminton player
- Njoo Kiem Bieb. 1927IDIndonesian badminton player (1927–2008)
- Källa Bieb. 1974SESwedish actress
- Bie Chengperson, CBDB = 41820
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,378 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 386 | #3,768 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 322 | #1,436 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Bie?
- A machine transcription gives /bi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bie mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of black identity extremist. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Bie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bie.
- How common is the name Bie?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,116 people named Bie, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
- How common is Bie compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bie is the 444th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bieThe 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, “Bie” — the 444th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.