Oyá
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Oyá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish اویا (oya), ultimately borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, “sheepskin; fringe, edge”).
- SESweden1 in 222K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 267K
- MDMoldova1 in 561K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 222K (inferred from the name graph)
213 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oya 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)
- Ottoman Turkishاویاoya(measured from records)
- Greekούγιαoúgia“sheepskin; fringe, edge”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish اویا (oya), ultimately borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, “sheepskin; fringe, edge”).
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oyá 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 | 213 | 1 in 1.6M | 211 | Oya | 38 |
| SE Sweden | 46 | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 28 | 1 in 617K | 28 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 6 | 1 in 561K | 6 | — | 1 |
213 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); e-services.md — living population register. 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 Oyá mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish اویا (oya), ultimately borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, “sheepskin; fringe, edge”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Oyá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 213 people named Oyá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oya.
- Where is Oyá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oyá is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 222 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oyá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 213 people named Oyá in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oy%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, “Oyá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.