Al-Bayati () is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.
The tribal etymology is a regional name affiliated with the region of Tuz District in Saladin Governorate, northern Iraq.
The ancestry and ethnicity of those carrying the al-Bayati name is split between Arab clans and Turkmen clans. Arab sources claim it as an Arab tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy. Turkmen sources however claim the tribe's ancestry is linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe with origins in Khorasan. Notable people
Abbas al-Bayati, Iraqi Shiite politician Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati (1926–1999), Iraqi Arab poet Basil Al Bayati (1946), Iraqi architect Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati (1962), Iraqi politician T. Hamid al Bayati, Iraqi diplomat, academic and author
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