Nayá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nayá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 361Kas นิยะ(inferred from the name graph)
- YTMayotte≈1 in 5.5K
- ESSpain1 in 25K
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 Nayá 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,027 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mayotte, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled นยา in TH Thailand, Niya in US United States and Naya in ES Spain.
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)
Naya (m.fl. former) kan vara ett indiskt namn med betydelsen ’förnyelse’. Det kan också vara en skrivform av Nia, ett namn med rötter i såväl swahili som walesiska där det betyder ’syfte’ respektive ’klar’. Nia och Naya är båda relativt populära som namn i USA idag. Även ett arabiskt namn, ofta skrivet Najah, finns, med betydelsen ’framgång’.
Sources 6
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nayá 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 | — | 2,027 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Naya | 105 |
| AR Argentina | — | 721 | 1 in 63K | 721 | — | 52 |
| FR France | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 261K | 4.7K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 908K | 614 | Nayá | 58 |
| US United States | — | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 4.4K | Niya | 118 |
| TH Thailand | #371 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 361K | #287,776 | นยา | 36 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 5 | — | — |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 5 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 44 | — | — |
2,027 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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
- Is Nayá a male or female name?
- Nayá 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 Nayá have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Nayá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naya.
- How common is the name Nayá?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,027 people named Nayá, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Nayá compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Nayá is the 371st most common surname of 1,135,150 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/nay%C3%A1The 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, “Nayá” — the 371st most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.