Bayé History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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• England
• France

Etymology of Bayé

The prestigious surname Bayé comes from the majestic region of Dauphiné, in France. Bayé is a topographic surname, a form of hereditary surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

Early Origins of the Bayé family

Early History of the Bayé family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bayé research. Another 198 words (14 lines of text) covering the years 1644, 1647, 1685, 1686, 1707, 1779, 1792, 1802, 1804, 1817, 1825, 1827, 1832, 1836 and 1851 are included under the topic Early Bayé History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Bayé Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Bai, Baie, Bay, Baye, Debai, De Bai, Debaie, De Baie, Debay, De Bay, Debaye, De Baye, Bayard, Bayart, Bayet, Bayol, Bayou, Bayoud and many more.

Early Notables of the Bayé family

Ann Stuyvesant Bayard, widowed wife of the French Huguenot Samuel Bayard, came to New Netherland with her brother, Director-General Peter Stuyvesant in 1647 and began the Bayard family in America, a prominent family of lawyers and politicians based in Wilmington, Delaware; Colonel Nicholas...
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Bayé Ranking

In France, the name Bayé is the 6,591^st most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Bayé family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Jacques Bayard, who married Marie Valade in Charlesbourg in 1694; François Bayard, who married Marie Faye in Trois-Rivières in 1711; Joseph Bayard, who married Madeleine Durivaux in 1749 in Quebec City.