Bay

At the 2020 census, 5,824 Americans bore the surname Bay — 5,728th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 51,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,824
Rank: 5,728th
How common: 1 in 51,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bay

Michael Bay (born 1965)American film director and producer
James Bay (born 1990)British singer-songwriter
Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900–1992)Hungarian physicist
Frances Bay (1919–2011)Canadian actress
Jason Bay (born 1978)Canadian-American baseball player
Gry Bay (born 1974)Danish actress
Nicolas Bay (born 1977)French politician
Rüstam bay (1477–1497)The sixth Padishah of Aq Qoyunlu

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

Surnames like Bay

Also a first name

Bay has been given to 727 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.