Náy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Náy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English nai, nei, from Old Norse nei (“no”), contraction of ne (“not”) + ei (“ever”), itself from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *nē (“not”). More at no.
- CLChile≈1 in 149K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 150K
- USUnited States1 in 196K
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
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)
1,698 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nay in US United States.
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)
- Middle Englishnai(measured from records)
- Old Norsenei“no”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*nai“never”(measured from records)
From Middle English nai, nei, from Old Norse nei (“no”), contraction of ne (“not”) + ei (“ever”), itself from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *nē (“not”). More at no.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Náy 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 | 1,698 | 1 in 196K | 4.8K | Nay | 295 |
| EG Egypt | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 467K | listed | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 239K | 11 | — | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 207 | 1 in 1M | 207 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 325K | 182 | — | 68 |
| CL Chile | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 149K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 14 | 1 in 150K | 15 | — | — |
1,698 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 Náy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English nai, nei, from Old Norse nei (“no”), contraction of ne (“not”) + ei (“ever”), itself from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *nē (“not”). More at no. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Is Náy a male or female name?
- Náy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Náy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Náy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nay.
- How common is the name Náy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,698 people named Náy in 2020, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A1yThe 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, “Náy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.