Aýo

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Aýo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States 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.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 64K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 208K
  • USUnited States1 in 475K

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)

700 people, 2020

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ayo in US United States, TG Togo.

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

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aýo 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.

Where Aýo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7001 in 475K821Ayo18
BR Brazil—1161 in 1.8M116——
DK Denmark—911 in 64K77——
SE Sweden—491 in 208K49—1
NL Netherlands—201 in 864K15—1
FI Finland—81 in 696K30——
GY Guyana—11 in 750K1——
TG Togo#586——1Ayo2

700 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aýo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Japanese, German

    Also written Ayo, Ayoe, Ayo', A'Yo, Ayó

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Aýo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aýo 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 Aýo a male or female name?
Aýo 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 Aýo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 700 people named Aýo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayo.
Where is Aýo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aýo is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aýo?
In the United States, the national register counted 700 people named Aýo in 2020, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
How common is Aýo compared with other names?
In Togo, Aýo is the 586th most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.

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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, “Aýo” — the 586th most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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