Gayana

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Syamala (N)

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

/ɡəjɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gayana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 135Kas Гаяна(inferred from the name graph)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 834K
  • USUnited States≈1 in 4.6M

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 Gayana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 named Гаяна, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
107 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 834K (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GayanaLatin(measured from records)
ГаянаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Гаяна in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan 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)

Syamala (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gayana 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 Gayana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈1,100 est.≈1 in 135K#1,951Гаяна107
UZ Uzbekistan≈100 est.≈1 in 307K—Гаяна4
US United States≈72 est.≈1 in 4.6M—Gayana25
UA Ukraine≈42 est.≈1 in 1M—Гаяна12
KZ Kazakhstan≈32 est.≈1 in 606K44Гаяна21
PL Poland16as Gajana1 in 2.4M16—5
TM Turkmenistan≈7 est.≈1 in 834K—Гаяна2
GY Guyana1as Guyana1 in 750K1——

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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

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

Gayana is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gāẏana

  • Sinhala given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka, United States

    Also written Gayanā, ගයනී, ගයනි, ගයන්

  • Armenian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Armenia, Canada

    Also written Գայանա, Guyana

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gayana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Aghora (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In srn, Guyana (a country in South America)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Gayana जी,Hi Gayana, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gayana mean, and where does it come from?
Syamala (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
How do you pronounce Gayana?
A machine transcription gives /ɡəjɑnə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Gayana a male or female name?
Gayana 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 Gayana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Гаяна in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Gayana?
In Poland, the national register counted 16 people named Gajana in 2026, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Gayana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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