Paey
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Paey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 81Kas Pay(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 89Kas Pay
- USUnited States1 in 390Kas Pay
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 Paey 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
854 named Pay, 2010
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est., as Pay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pay in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more.
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
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)
Paey 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 | 854as Pay | 1 in 390K | 891 | Pay | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 1.5K | Pay | 139 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Pay | 31 |
| AU Australia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Pay | 82 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 247K | 24 | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Pay | 40 |
| NO Norway | 116as Pay | 1 in 47K | 116 | — | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 67as Pay | 1 in 51K | 67 | — | — |
854 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Paey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 854 people named Pay, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 854 people named Pay in 2010, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paeyThe 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, “Paey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.