Anáya
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anáya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: + the def. art. -a, which was used in the Middle Ages both as a byname and as a personal name. Ancel i. French: occupational name for a domestic ser¬ vant, OF ancel{e) (L ancilla serving maid). 2.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 2.6K
- PEPeru≈1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
24,017 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, 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 Anaya in PE Peru, US United States, CO Colombia and 3 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)
+ the def. art. -a, which was used in the Middle Ages both as a byname and as a personal name. Ancel i. French: occupational name for a domestic ser¬ vant, OF ancel{e) (L ancilla serving maid). 2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): var. of Amschel. Vars. (of i): Ancelle (fem.); Anceau(x), Anseau(x), Ansiau; Lancel. Dims, (of i): Ancel(l)in, Anselin, Ancel(l)et, Anselet, Ancelot, Anselot. Patr. (from 2): Ancelevitch.
Sources 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anáya 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 | — | 24,017 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Anaya | 339 |
| CO Colombia | #335 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 10 | Anaya | 125 |
| PE Peru | #469 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Anaya | 79 |
| ES Spain | #795 | 5,677 | 1 in 8.8K | 5.7K | Anaya | 124 |
| SV El Salvador | #212 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Anaya | 45 |
| VE Venezuela | #918 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Anaya | 31 |
24,017 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 Anáya mean, and where does it come from?
- + the def. art. -a, which was used in the Middle Ages both as a byname and as a personal name. Ancel i. French: occupational name for a domestic ser¬ vant, OF ancel{e) (L ancilla serving maid). 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Anáya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Anáya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anaya.
- How common is the name Anáya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,017 people named Anáya in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Anáya compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Anáya is the 212th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/an%C3%A1yaThe 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, “Anáya” — the 212th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.