Bey

Etymology

 * As a north and  surname, variant of, , vowel variants of the  surname.
 * Also as a German surname, Germanized from, from , related to . Compare.
 * As a surname, from several placenames in France, from a regional variant of.
 * As an Islamic surname (generally Algeria), from (see ). See also,.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bey is the 6265th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5453 individuals. Bey is most common among Black/African American (64.07%) and White (21.29%) individuals.