Caaya

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Caaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 727K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caaya 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 Caaya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,500 est.≈1 in 74KCaaya21
ID Indonesia≈370 est.≈1 in 727KCaaya2
IN India≈48 est.≈1 in 28MCaaya2
US United States≈6 est.≈1 in 56MCaaya16
GB United Kingdom≈3 est.≈1 in 22MCaaya3

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Caaya is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Ca-Aya

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Caaya 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

In which country does Caaya have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Caaya in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caaya.
How common is the name Caaya?
Mondonomo estimates about 1,500 people in the Philippines have Caaya as their first surname, about 1 in 74 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Caaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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