Ая
given name · Cyrillic script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/əjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ая is a female given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 124K(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 2.5Kas Айя
- LVLatvia1 in 272as Aija
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 Ая 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)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
11,450 named Aya
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Айя in KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland, Aya in US United States and Aija in LV Latvia.
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.
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ая 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 | — | 11,450as Aya | 1 in 4.4K | 11K | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #577 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 7.8K | Айя | 37 |
| US United States | — | 7,553as Aya | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Aya | 13 |
| LV Latvia | — | 6,928as Aija | 1 in 272 | 6.9K | Aija | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 3,719as Aya | 1 in 1.6K | 3.7K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,343as Aya | 1 in 4.4K | 2.3K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,161as Aija | 1 in 2.6K | 2.5K | Айя | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 124K | register #1,143 | Ая | 115 |
11,450 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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the ru-zags-hf register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Ая is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In niv, turtle (land or marine reptile with a shell)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nog, palm (inner, concave part of hand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Mongolian, melody; tune
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gld, healthy
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aya Kamikawab. 1968JPJapanese politician
- Aya Watanabeb. 1970JPJapanese screenwriter
- Aya Nakaharab. 1973JPJapanese manga artist
- Aya Sumikab. 1980USAmerican actress
- Aya Cashb. 1982USAmerican actress
- Hirayama Ayab. 1984JPJapanese actress
- Aya Miyamab. 1985JPJapanese association football player
- Aya Suzukib. 1990JPJapanese fashion model
- Aya Kondōb. 1991JPJapanese tarento
- Aya Nakamurab. 1995MLMalian-French singer (born 1995)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations | — | 592 | #923 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026) | — | 507 | #627 |
| RU Russia | EGR ZAGS Russian Names — HuggingFace dataset (rustemgareev, CC BY-SA 4.0) | — | — | #1,143 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Ая?
- A machine transcription gives /əjə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Ая a male or female name?
- Ая is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Kazakhstan (Bureau of National Statistics).
- In which country does Ая have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Aya, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ая?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,450 people named Aya, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Ая compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Ая is the 577th most common given name of 274,628 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ая?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%B0%D1%8FThe 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, “Ая” — the 577th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.