Bays as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Bays

What is the meaning of the name Bays ?

The baby name Bays is a Unisex name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced Bays /beɪz/ (rhymes with 'days').

Bays is English in Origin.

Bays is a modern, largely unisex given name drawn from an English surname. The surname has several plausible roots: Middle English bais “bay-colored,” from Old French bai(s) and Latin badius, used as a nickname for someone with a reddish-brown complexion or a keeper of bay horses; a topographic surname for someone living by a sea inlet (Middle English bay(e), from Old French baee “opening”); and, by association, the “bay” laurel (from Old French baie “berry”), long a symbol of honor and victory.

As a first name, Bays follows the Anglo-American custom of adopting surnames as given names, with sporadic use noted from the late 19th century onward. Variants and related forms include Bayes, Bayse, and Bay; Bay functions as a short form. Depending on the lineage, Bays can convey shades of meaning such as “reddish-brown,” “dweller by a bay,” or “laurel/victory.”

⚙ Bays is about as rare as a name gets. We count just 37 recorded uses of it worldwide, from 19 countries.