Acaya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Achaea
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Acaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 84Kas Aquea(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 2.3M
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.5Mas Aquea
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 Acaya 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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 named Aquea, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aquea in CL Chile, VE Venezuela, PY Paraguay and 1 more and Acaia in BR Brazil.
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)
Achaea
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Acaya 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.
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Acaya mean, and where does it come from?
- Achaea Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Acaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 people named Aquea in Chile, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Acaya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Acaya is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though Chile holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Acaya?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 20 people named Acaya, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Acaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/acayaThe 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, “Acaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.