Aýâ

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aýâ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese あや (Aya).

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 315(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 481
  • SYSyria≈1 in 486

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈330,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
296 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AýâLatin(measured from records)
איהHebrew(measured from records)
อายะThai(measured from records)
아야Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aya in EG Egypt, SY Syria, MA Morocco 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)

Borrowed from Japanese あや (Aya).

Sources 4

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aýâ 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.

Where Aýâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#18≈330,000 est.≈1 in 315—Aya148
MA Morocco#64≈74,000 est.≈1 in 481—Aya86
SY Syria#79≈40,000 est.≈1 in 486—Aya34
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈29,000 est.≈1 in 9551.4K—2
DZ Algeria#97≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.6KlistedAya46
ES Spain—11,4501 in 4.4K11KAya51
DK Denmark—3,7191 in 1.6K3.7K—3

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Aýâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aýâ mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Japanese あや (Aya). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
Is Aýâ a male or female name?
Aýâ 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 Aýâ have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 330 thousand people named Aýâ in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aya.
How common is the name Aýâ?
In Spain, the national register counted 11,450 people named Aýâ, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
How common is Aýâ compared with other names?
In Egypt, Aýâ is the 18th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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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, “Aýâ” — the 18th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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