How common is the surname Baines?

6,557 people in the United States had the surname Baines in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,086 Americans. It ranked 5,313th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Baines?

Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian, oldest living person in the world, followed by Thomas Baines.

Where is the surname Baines most common?

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

Is the surname Baines getting more or less common?

More common. 5,702 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,557 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Baines

A French place surname, carried by 6,557 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baines is more common than 96.7% of them.

Origin

French origin

* 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.

Baines is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,557 people named Baines in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,086 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,702.

#5,313

rank among US surnames

6,557

people in 2010

2.2

per 100,000 Americans

+15%

change since 2000 (was #5,586)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,304	Hazelwood	6,567	47,015
#5,305	Rawlins	6,566	47,022
#5,306	Cobbs	6,565	47,029
#5,308	Karl	6,564	47,036
#5,309	Beaudoin	6,562	47,051
#5,310	Stocker	6,561	47,058
#5,311	Erdman	6,558	47,079

Who is named Baines

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

48% of people named Baines identified as Black (not Hispanic), 46% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Bainess

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Gertrude Baines
American supercentenarian, oldest living person in the world, 1894–2009
Thomas Baines
British expedition artist (1820-1875)
Harold Baines
American baseball player and coach, born 1959
Sarah Baines
Baines [née Hunt], Sarah Jane [Jennie] (1866–1951), British suffragette and social reforme
John Baines
British egyptologist, born 1946

Notable Bainess come mostly from the United States (2), the United Kingdom (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Baines

Baines has the Soundex code B520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B520.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Baines come from?: * 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.
How common is the surname Baines?: 6,557 people in the United States had the surname Baines in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,086 Americans. It ranked 5,313th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Baines?: In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Baines identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 46% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Baines?: Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian, oldest living person in the world, followed by Thomas Baines.
Where is the surname Baines most common?: Wikidata records people named Baines in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What type of surname is Baines?: Baines is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Baines getting more or less common?: More common. 5,702 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,557 in 2010, up 15%.