# Baines (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/baines/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,557 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,313 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 47,086 people |
| Change since 2000 | +15% (5,702 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* Habitational, of Norman origin, after Bains (places in France in either Ille-et-Vilaine or Maine-et-Loire), from Old French baine (“bath”). * Variant of Bain or Bane with excrescent -s.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Baines in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 46% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 48% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Baines in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Baines

- Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian, oldest living person in the world
- Thomas Baines, British expedition artist (1820-1875)
- Harold Baines, American baseball player and coach
- Sarah Baines, Baines [née Hunt], Sarah Jane [Jennie] (1866–1951), British suffragette and social reforme
- John Baines, British egyptologist

## Similar surnames

Binns, Bains, Baynes, Banas, Banos, Beneš, Bones, Banes, Beans, Bynes, Banks, Bangs.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.