Bye
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A short form; nickname sometimes used independently (Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
Bye is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Bye is also written Бю in Cyrillic.
- NONorway≈1 in 530K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 1.9M
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 3.1M
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 Bye itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 532K (inferred from the name graph)
660 named Bu, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bye in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bult in 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)A short form; nickname sometimes used independently.
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bye 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 660as Bu | 1 in 504K | 3.7K | Bult | 315 |
| IN India | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 7 | — | 23 |
| BR Brazil | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | 285 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | 7 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 532K | 4.8K | — | 80 |
| SE Sweden | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | 13 |
| FI Finland | 6as Bu | 1 in 929K | 38 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1as Bu | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 2 |
660 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling bu. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Bye 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 English, near a bend in a river, from OE byge bend (a deriv. of biigan; cf. Buxton i). Byres see Byers
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, a bend in a river, from OE byge bend (a deriv. of bugan; cf. Buxton i). Vars.: By, Buy(e).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Person who lives by a bend in a river.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge
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)- Erik Ole Byeb. 1883NONorwegian opera singer and rower (1883-1953)
- Ed Byeb. 1955GBBritish television director and producer
- Matti Byeb. 1966SESwedish composer
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bye mean, and where does it come from?
- A short form; nickname sometimes used independently. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Which countries have the most people named Bye?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 660 people named Bu, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Brazil, France and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 660 people named Bu in 2020, about 1 in 504 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/byeThe 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, “Bye” — ranked 8231st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.