Bai

At the 2020 census, 5,155 Americans bore the surname Bai — 6,341st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,155
Rank: 6,341st
How common: 1 in 58,000
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

From Chinese 白.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bai described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.1%
White, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Bai

Li Bai (701–762)Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty
Bai Juyi (772–846)Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
Bai Ling (born 1966)Chinese-American actress
Teejan Bai (1956–2026)Indian singer
Bai Xue (born 1988)Chinese long distance runner
Bai Qi (250 BC–256 BC)Chinese Qin state military general ( c. 332 BC – 257 BC)
Bai Lu (born 1994)Chinese actress and model
Bai Guang (1921–1999)Chinese actor and singer

People named Bai with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bai

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.