Bayan
loc · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bayan is a name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Malay and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: parrot (kind of bird).
- MYMalaysia1 in 650◐
- KWKuwait1 in 1.1K
- KZKazakhstan1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.3K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 156 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
101K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Bajan in PH Philippines, US United States, IN India and 6 more, Баян in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Baian in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, SA Saudi Arabia and Bayán in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
parrot (kind of bird)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | 186,227 | 283 rec. | — | — | Bayan | 16 |
| RU Russia | — | 5,798 | 3K rec. | — | #1,473 | Баян | 98 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #204 | 5,531 | 39K rec. | 1 in 3.5K | 5.5K | Баян | 47 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,982 | 12K rec. | — | — | Bajan | 43 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 2,379 | 726 rec. | — | — | Баян | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | — | 1,074 | 68 rec. | — | — | Bayan | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,050 | 10K rec. | 1 in 317K | 1.1K | Bajan | 156 |
| ES Spain | — | 809 | 668 rec. | 1 in 62K | 809 | Bayán | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 604 | 371 rec. | 1 in 17K | 604 | — | 17 |
| SY Syria | — | 537 | 16K rec. | — | — | Baian | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 254 | 236 rec. | — | — | Bayan | 55 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 247 | 1 rec. | — | — | Bayan | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay186K65%
- Hindi1.2K1%
- Arabic1.1K1%
- Vietnamese2471%
- Indonesian2381%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 186,143 | 65% |
| Hindi | 1,249 | 1% |
| Arabic | 1,113 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 247 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 238 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bayan 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 Malay, parakeet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, A delicate, colorful wildflower that blooms on mountain slopes at the awakening of spring
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In English, A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mnc, romanization of ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, behind, after
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 21 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 26 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 28 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 36 |
| 2016 | 42 |
| 2017 | 44 |
| 2018 | 45 |
| 2019 | 52 |
| 2020 | 72 |
| 2021 | 45 |
| 2022 | 64 |
| 2023 | 51 |
| 2024 | 78 |
| 2025 | 89 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1985–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bayan Nuwayhid Hutb. 1937LBPalestinian politician, historian and journalist (born 1937)
- Bayan Northcottb. 1940GBBritish composer
- Bayan Alaguzovab. 1974KZKazakhstani singer, television presenter and businessperson
- Bayan Jumahb. 1994SYSyrian swimmer
- Bayan Laylab. 1996SYSyrian actress
- Bayan Amanb. 2005LCSaint Lucian footballer
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●
Attested in 63 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #10,484 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 809 | #3,304 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 604 | #2,427 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 548 | #2,368 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 512 | #2,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 493 | #46,548 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 474 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 386 | #53,538 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 360 | #11,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 342 | #55,971 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 219 | #10,484 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 177 | #18,119 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 327 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bayan?
- We estimate roughly 8.3 thousand people bear Bayan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bayan have the most bearers?
- Bayan is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled bayan.
- How common is Bayan compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Bayan is the 204th most common given name of 322,768 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Bayan mean?
- Recorded meaning: parrot (kind of bird)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bayan” — the 204th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.