Ôlaya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ôlaya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Olaya, itself from Galician Olalla, from Ancient Greek Εὐλαλία (Eulalía).
- COColombia≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Olaya in PE Peru, CO Colombia, MX Mexico and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- SpanishOlaya(measured from records)
- GalicianOlalla(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΕὐλαλίαEulalía(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Olaya, itself from Galician Olalla, from Ancient Greek Εὐλαλία (Eulalía).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ôlaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ôlaya mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Olaya, itself from Galician Olalla, from Ancient Greek Εὐλαλία (Eulalía). Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Ôlaya a male or female name?
- Ôlaya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ôlaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Ôlaya in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olaya.
- How common is the name Ôlaya?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,123 people named Ôlaya in 2024, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ôlaya compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Ôlaya is the 272nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ôlaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B4layaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ôlaya” — the 272nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.