Araya
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Araya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 69(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 231
- ARArgentina1 in 2.3K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Araya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #8 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | 1 | Araya | 167 |
| CR Costa Rica | #5 | 74,272 | 1 in 69 | 74K | Araya | 137 |
| AR Argentina | #317 | 19,536 | 1 in 2.3K | 20K | Araya | 89 |
| US United States | — | 2,742 | 1 in 121K | 3.5K | Araya | 272 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Araya | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 900 | 1 in 6.1K | 900 | — | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 443 | 1 in 7.6K | 443 | — | 18 |
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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zeudi Arayab. 1951EREritrean actress, singer and film producer
- Johnny Araya Mongeb. 1957CRCosta Rican politician
- Tom Arayab. 1961CLChilean-American musician
- Mónica Arayab. 1971CRCosta Rican Emissions-free transportation advocate
- Rodrigo Meléndezb. 1977CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Ariel Rodríguezb. 1989CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Roberto Rodríguezb. 1990CHnot in their usual nameSwiss footballer
- Ricardo Rodríguezb. 1992CHnot in their usual nameSwiss association football player (born 1992)
- Francisco Rodriguezb. 1995CHnot in their usual nameSwiss footballer
- Douglas Lópezb. 1998CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
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 51 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 74K | #12 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,476 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,273 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 900 | #1,313 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 450 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 443 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Araya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Araya in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled araya.
- Where is Araya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Araya is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 69 people — even though Chile holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Araya?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 74,272 people named Araya, about 1 in 69 residents.
- How common is Araya compared with other names?
- In Chile, Araya is the 8th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Araya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arayaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Araya” — the 8th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.