Ayas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: given to ward off evil
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ayas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 104K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 112K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
given to ward off evil
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Ayas | 52 |
| IN India | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 2 | Ayas | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Ayas | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Ayas | 57 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Ayas | 9 |
| ES Spain | 242 | 1 in 207K | 242 | — | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Ayas | 6 |
| AT Austria | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 18 | Ayas | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 43 | 1 in 195K | 43 | Ayas | 9 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Ayas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ssg, outrigger boom
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, shadow
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)
- Aydın Ayasb. 1946TRTurkish politician (born 1946)
- Eduardo Ayasb. 1957ARArgentine opera singer
- Nazan Ayasb. 1960TRTurkish actor (born 1960)
- Defne Ayasb. 1976TRTurkish curator (born 1976)
- Suat Onur Ayasb. 1985TRTurkish sound editor
- Franck Ayasactor
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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 242 | #14,300 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 242 | #14,280 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 43 | #20,892 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #17,030 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ayas mean, and where does it come from?
- given to ward off evil Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Ayas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Ayas in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayas.
- How common is the name Ayas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 242 people named Ayas, about 1 in 207 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayasThe 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, “Ayas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.