Bai (surname)
Bái is the pinyin of the surname , meaning the colour white. Some people with this name are of Mongol origin. Another surname, , meaning the tree cypress. This one is the 37th name on the "Hundred Family Surnames" poem. Since 柏 is a character with two readings, it is often mistakenly read as "Bó".In modern Chinese, the proper way to pronounce it as a surname is "Bǎi". Bai and other variants were ranked 79th within the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, down from 70th in 1990.