Röya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Röya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.1K
- IRIran≈1 in 57K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Roya in US United States, IR Iran, AF Afghanistan and 3 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
(measured from records)dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Röya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #116 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 2 | Roya | 11 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #194 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 117 | Röya | 25 |
| US United States | — | 2,894 | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Roya | 283 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Roya | 45 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | Roya | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 610 | 1 in 17K | 610 | Roya | 18 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Roya | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 123 | 1 in 48K | 123 | — | 2 |
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; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Röya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nhg, salary, payment for work
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 117 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- What does the name Röya mean, and where does it come from?
- dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Röya a male or female name?
- Röya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice).
- In which country does Röya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Röya in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roya.
- How common is the name Röya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,894 people named Röya in 2020, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Röya compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Röya is the 116th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%B6yaThe 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, “Röya” — the 116th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.