Goya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: found mostly in the RyOkyu Islands, this name is usually written with characters meaning ‘barbarian room’ or ‘give room’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡoʝa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 25K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 32K
- PEPeru≈1 in 53K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
2,007 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
found mostly in the RyOkyu Islands, this name is usually written with characters meaning ‘barbarian room’ or ‘give room’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,007 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Goya | 105 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,420 | 1 in 32K | 1.4K | Goya | 63 |
| BR Brazil | — | 955 | 1 in 222K | 955 | Goya | 75 |
| US United States | — | 700 | 1 in 475K | 700 | Goya | 99 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Goya | 33 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Goya | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 84 | 1 in 40K | 84 | Goya | 12 |
| EC Ecuador | #944 | — | — | 33 | Goya | 21 |
2,007 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Goya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, variant of Goia, a topographic name from Basque goi ‘upper part’ -i- the definite article -a.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, bitter melon (edible fruit, especially as it is eaten by Okinawans)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Francisco, Spanish painter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Japanese, habitational name from Goya in Lugo province, Galicia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Wild cat.
as a nameThe African book of names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco Goyab. 1746ESSpanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
- Beltran Pagolab. 1878ESnot in their usual nameBasque composer and musician (1878-1950)
- Mona Goyab. 1909FRFrench actress
- Hidenobu Goyab. 1928JPJapanese businessperson (1928-2017)
- Francis Goyab. 1946BEBelgian musician
- Tito Goyab. 1951USAmerican actor (1951–1985)
- José Manuel Losadab. 1962ESnot in their usual nameSpanish literary critic
- Takanori Goyab. 1983JPJapanese basketball player
- Hiroto Goyab. 1994JPJapanese association football player
- Kaito Goyab. 1997JPbaseball player (1997-)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 123 | #13,393 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 121 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 111 | #6,462 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1991 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2004 | 1 | — |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Goya?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʝa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Goya mean, and where does it come from?
- found mostly in the RyOkyu Islands, this name is usually written with characters meaning ‘barbarian room’ or ‘give room’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Goya have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Goya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goya.
- Where is Goya most common?
- Goya is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Goya?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,007 people named Goya, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Goya compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Goya is the 944th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goyaThe 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, “Goya” — the 944th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.