Loia
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/lujɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Loia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- WSSamoa≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 540K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
392 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Loia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 392 | 1 in 540K | 392 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 157K | listed | Loia | 11 |
| SS South Sudan | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Loia | 1 |
| US United States | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 182 | Loia | 116 |
| AR Argentina | 34 | 1 in 1.3M | 34 | — | — |
| WS Samoa | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 36 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 664K | — | Loia | 1 |
392 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); This page provides a list of American Samoan surnames starting with the letter 'l', and it is published on surnam.es.; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)Loia 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.
In Italian, dirt, filth on clothes or skin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, lie, untruth
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 87 | #24,491 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65 | #51,891 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Loia?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /lujɐ/; in Spanish /loja/; in Italian /loja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Loia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 392 people named Loia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Loia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 392 people named Loia, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Loia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loiaThe 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, “Loia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.