Baig

At the 2020 census, 5,025 Americans bore the surname Baig — 6,494th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,025
Rank: 6,494th
How common: 1 in 59,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

As an Islamic surname (Indian subcontinent), from Turkish beg, an older form of bey. Compare Bey, Beg.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 87.6%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Baig

Diana Baig (born 1995)Pakistani women's cricketer and footballer

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

Surnames like Baig

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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.