Эй
org · Cyrillic script
Эй is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: hey! (attracting attention). Эй is also written Aye in Latin.
- RURussia≈1 in 32M(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 32Kas Ej
- SESweden1 in 159Kas Aye
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Эй itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32M (inferred from the name graph)
1,777 named Ej, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Эй in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aye in US United States.
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)hey! (attracting attention)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Эй 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,777as Ej | 1 in 187K | 2.9K | Aye | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 182as Ej | 1 in 32K | 92 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 64as Aye | 1 in 159K | 64 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 43as Ej | 1 in 402K | 32 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 27as Aye | 1 in 206K | 91 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Эй | 34 |
1,777 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling ej. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Johanna Eyb. 1864DEnot in their usual nameGerman art dealer (1864–1947)
- Henri Eyb. 1900FRnot in their usual nameFrench psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher (1900–1977)
- Wendy Eyb. 1938AUnot in their usual nameSouth Australian athlete, administrator, academic, author and feminist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Эй mean, and where does it come from?
- hey! (attracting attention) Recorded by Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order.
- Which countries have the most people named Эй?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Ej, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Эй?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,777 people named Ej in 2020, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Эй?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%8D%D0%B9The 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, “Эй” — ranked 8204th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.