Ăyo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ăyo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: the guardian of an orphan in a community, from Sp. ayo tutor, guardian, a masc. form of aya nurse (L avia grand¬ mother) . 2.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 88K
- USUnited States1 in 475K
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 Ăyo 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ayo in NG Nigeria, US United States, GB United Kingdom 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(measured from records)
the guardian of an orphan in a community, from Sp. ayo tutor, guardian, a masc. form of aya nurse (L avia grand¬ mother) . 2. The surname is common in Bilbao in the Basque country, and it is possible that it was adopted as a Castilian form of the Basque surname Aia or Aya, a topographic name from Basque ai slope + the def. art. -a.
Sources 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The African book of names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ăyo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #305 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Ayo | 113 |
| UG Uganda | #273 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ayo | 15 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Ayo | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Ayo | 153 |
| US United States | — | 700 | 1 in 475K | 821 | Ayo | 275 |
| DK Denmark | — | 191as Ayoe | 1 in 31K | 191 | — | — |
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; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ăyo mean, and where does it come from?
- the guardian of an orphan in a community, from Sp. ayo tutor, guardian, a masc. form of aya nurse (L avia grand¬ mother) . 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Is Ăyo a male or female name?
- Ăyo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ăyo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 117 thousand people named Ăyo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayo.
- How common is the name Ăyo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 700 people named Ăyo in 2020, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
- How common is Ăyo compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ăyo is the 305th most common given name of 138,191 given names 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/%C4%83yoThe 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, “Ăyo” — the 305th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.