Al-Bayati
Al-Bayati is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.
The tribe is named after their traditional region of Tuz District in Saladin Governorate, northern Iraq.
The ancestry and ethnicity of those carrying the al-Bayati name is split between Arabs and Turkmen. 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.