Origin and popularity of the name BAYE

Origin

Baye : English (London) Dutch and Walloon: variant of Bay.

Bay : 1: English French and Walloon: nickname for someone with chestnut or auburn hair from Middle English Old French bay bai ‘reddish brown’ (from Latin badius used originally of horses).2: English: from the Middle English personal name Baye Old English Bēaga (masculine) or Bēage (feminine) both from bēag ‘ring’.3: English: topographic name from Middle English bei ‘ring bend’ (Old English bēag) used topographically for features such as river-bends.4: German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Baio.5: South German (Swabia): topographic name from Bai ‘small ravine hollow’ also ‘reed’.6: In some cases also a Germanized form of Sorbian Baj: nickname or occupational name from Upper Sorbian baj ‘storyteller’. Compare Bey.7: Danish and Norwegian: from a short form of German Bayer or from baygh originally a loanword from French denoting a type of fabric.8: Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from bay ‘rich man’ a word which also acquired meaning ‘gentleman’ analogue to that of the unrelated word bey (see Bey).9: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 馬 see Ma 1.

Bey : 1: North German and Dutch: from the personal name Beye or Baye vowel variants of Boye.2: Germanized form of Sorbian Baj: nickname or occupational name from Upper Sorbian baj ‘storyteller’. Compare Bay.3: French: habitational name from (Le) Bey the name of several places in eastern France in Ain Meurthe-et-Moselle or Saône-et-Loire.4: French (Burgundy): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill stream from a regional variant of bief ‘mill-race’.5: Muslim (mainly Algeria also common among African Americans): from the Turkish title bey a younger form of beg (see Beg) denoting a nobleman serving as a local administrator in the Ottoman Empire. It was also a high military rank in the Ottoman army and also widely used as a title of respect for a man (after a man's name). See also 6 below Agha and Pasha.6: Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from bey a Turkish title (see 5 above).

Mbaye : West African (mainly Senegal; also M'Baye): from a Wolof and Lebou personal name of unexplained etymology.

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