Balayya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Balayya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.5M
- BHBahrain≈1 in 93Kas Balaiah
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 Balayya 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
745 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Balaiah in IN India, MY Malaysia, KW Kuwait and 4 more and Balay-Ya in PH Philippines.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Balayya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 745 | 1 in 1.8M | 745 | Balaiah | 57 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Balaiah | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Balaiah | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Balaiah | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Balay-Ya | 5 |
| OM Oman | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Balaiah | 1 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Balaiah | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Balaiah | 2 |
745 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling balayya. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 745 | #6,857 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 218 | #13,273 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #3,331 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Balayya a male or female name?
- Balayya is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Balayya have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 745 people named Balayya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balaiah.
- Where is Balayya most common?
- Balayya is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Balayya?
- In India, the national register counted 745 people named Balayya, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balayyaThe 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, “Balayya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.