Bays

At the 2020 census, 6,251 Americans bore the surname Bays — 5,387th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,251
Rank: 5,387th
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bays

Marguerite Bays (1815–1879)Canonized Catholic laywoman
Carter Bays (born 1975)American television writer and producer

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

Surnames like Bays

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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.