Anaya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Visnu (N)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 2.6K
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.3K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
24,017 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Visnu (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anaya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 24,017 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Anaya | 339 |
| CO Colombia | #335 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 10 | Anaya | 125 |
| PE Peru | #469 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Anaya | 79 |
| ES Spain | #795 | 5,677 | 1 in 8.8K | 5.7K | Anaya | 124 |
| SV El Salvador | #212 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Anaya | 45 |
| VE Venezuela | #918 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Anaya | 31 |
24,017 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Anaya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, dative singular of ana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, misfortune, distress
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osp, brother
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)
- Carlos Anayab. 1777ARpolitician and historian (1777-1862)
- Ignacio Anaya Garcíab. 1897MXMexican executive chef (1895-1975)
- Mélida Anaya Montesb. 1929SVSalvadoran revolutionary (1929–1983)
- Rudolfo Anayab. 1937USAmerican Chicano novelist, poet (1937–2020)
- Toney Anayab. 1941USAmerican politician
- Regina Tornéb. 1945MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress, singer and television presenter (born 1944)
- James Anayab. 1960UShuman rights professor
- Elena Anayab. 1975ESSpanish actress
- María Joséb. 1976MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer and actress (1976-)
- Ricardo Anayab. 1979MXMexican politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,488 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,474 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,894 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.7K | #950 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.7K | #950 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 10 | #106 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Anaya mean, and where does it come from?
- Visnu (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- In which country does Anaya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Anaya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anaya.
- How common is the name Anaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,017 people named Anaya in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Anaya compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Anaya is the 212th most common surname of 35,145 surnames 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/anayaThe 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, “Anaya” — the 212th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.