Dayanand
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/deɪənənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dayanand is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 15K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 137K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Dayanand 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Dayanand | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Dayanand | 2 |
| US United States | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | listed | Dayanand | 107 |
| GY Guyana | 50 | 1 in 15K | 50 | Dayanand | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Dayanand | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | 34 | 1 in 508K | 34 | Dayanand | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 508K | — | Dayanand | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 436K | — | Dayanand | 1 |
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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
- Saneeth Dayanandb. 2003INbadminton player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 50 | #544 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 34 | #8,475 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Dayanand?
- A machine transcription gives /deɪənənd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Dayanand a male or female name?
- Dayanand 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 Dayanand have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 411 people named Dayanand in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dayanand.
- Where is Dayanand most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dayanand is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dayanand?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 50 people named Dayanand in 2025, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dayanand?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dayanandThe 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, “Dayanand”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.